Neurology
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Stent-retriever thrombectomy reduces poststroke disability
Key clinical point: Thrombectomy with a stent retriever reduced poststroke disability in patients with occlusion of the proximal anterior...
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Oral device reduced obstructive sleep apnea, not sleepiness
Key clinical point: An oral appliance to advance the lower jaw reduced apneic episodes, snoring, and restless legs symptoms.
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Trauma surgeons can safely manage many TBI patients
Key clinical point: Patients with less severe TBIs can be safely managed by intensivists or trauma surgeons. Major finding: For TBI patients,...
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AAN: Facial nerve stimulator relieves cluster headaches
Key clinical point: An implantable device that stimulates the sphenopalatine ganglion nerve provided pain relief in cluster headaches. Major...
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Fatal opioid overdoses down dramatically since 2010
Key clinical point: Two changes in the pharmaceutical market dramatically reversed fatal opioid overdoses, along with opioid dispensing, in late...
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Device closure of PFO doesn’t drop combined major adverse event risk
Key clinical point: Device closure of a patent foramen ovale seems to reduce the risk of recurrent stroke – but not a composite of death, stroke,...
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Broadly implementing stroke embolectomy faces hurdles
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VIDEO: Challenges abound in rolling out stroke embolectomy
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Giant intracranial aneurysm treatment confers some long-term survival benefit
Key clinical point: Giant intracranial aneurysms have a generally poor 10-year outcome, although treated patients fare better than untreated....