Prof. Julie Berhardt in conversation with Dr. Vivian Fu who presented the TACAS trial at ESOC. 

Prof. Helen Rodgers RATULS TRIAL  ESOC 2019 Milan  http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN69371850

Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins spoke to Craig Anderson, after a 7 year trial what does ENCHANTED resuts released today at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii. 

Excess stroke incidence in young Aboriginal people in South Australia: pooled results from two population-based studies. Retrospective data indicate increased stroke incidence in Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians, possibly with poorer outcomes.  Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and spoke to Dr Anna Balabanski from the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, corresponding author for the article Excess stroke incidence in...

  Infection is a common complication after stroke, affecting between 15% and 30% of patients. The predictors for post-stroke infection can be divided into three categories: clinical factors, anatomical (stroke related) factors and immunological factors. The relation between the occurrence of a post-stroke infection and functional outcome remained subject of debate, but it seems likely that the occurrence of these infections have a causal relation with poor functional outcome and...

Intra-arterial treatment of acute ischemic stroke requires changes to acute stroke services since most hospitals do not have on-site intra-arterial treatment facilities. I’m Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke to Dr Alfonso Ciccone director of the department of neuroscience at the hospital Mantova, Italy who explained to us how they conducted research to identify models for delivery of intra-arterial treatment and to compare process...

Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke spoke to the fabulous Erin Godeke about the VERSE trial and results  JUST announced at WSC in REAL TIME! 

To prevent recurrent venous thrombotic events after acute cerebral venous or dural sinus thrombosis, guidelines recommend long-term oral anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists. Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulant experience in cerebral venous or dural sinus thrombosis is limited to case reports and series. I’m Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke with Professor Jose Ferro from University of Lisbon – Neurology Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon,...

Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke attended the Stroke Society Australasia/ Smartstrokes conference 2018, and developed a collection of podcasts for your listening pleasure.  In this podcast you will be privy to an important and insightful conversation on the big questions in endovascular thrombectomy between Professor Stephen Davis Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre RMH and the University of Melbourne and Maynak Goyal interventional radiologist...

Janice Eng GF Strong Rehab Centre, British Columbia, Canada  Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke attended the Stroke Society Australasia/ Smartstrokes conference 2018 and developed a collection of podcasts for your listening pleasure.  In this podcast you will be privy to this important interview with Professor Janice Eng from GF Strong Rehab Centre and University of British Columbia, Canada and Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins. The International Journal of...

Avril Drummond and Richard Lindley Stroke Society Australasia and Smartstrokes  Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke attended the Stroke Society Australasia/ Smartstrokes conference 2018, and developed a collection of podcasts for your listening pleasure.  In this podcast you will be privy to a fascinating conversation by Professor of Geriatric Medicine Richard Lindley from The George Institute, Australia and Professor of Health Care Research Avril...

Link to the BUST results People with stroke sit for long periods each day, which may compromise blood glucose control and increase risk of recurrent stroke. Studies in other populations have found regular activity breaks have a significant acute positive effect on glucose metabolism. We examined the effects of breaking up uninterrupted sitting with short, regular activity breaks in people with stroke on post-prandial plasma glucose and insulin.   The International Journal of Stroke first...

Sedentary behaviour after stroke: a new target for therapeutic intervention Over the last 10 years evidence has emerged that too much sedentary time (e.g. time spent sitting down) has adverse effects on health, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality. A considerable amount of media attention has been given to the topic. The current UK activity guidelines recommend that all adults should minimise the amount of time spent being sedentary for extended...

In this podcast Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International journal of Stroke spoke to Johanna Ralston Director of the World Obesity Society about the impact of obesity on stroke. 

In patients with mild ischemic stroke, small but eloquent infarcts may have devastating effects, particularly on health-related quality of life. Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke spoke to Dr Chen Lin from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago Illinois in the US, who was lead author for the article ‘Infarct location is associated with quality of life after mild ischemic stroke’, recently published in IJS. This study looks at...

A structural MRI measure of combined neurovascular and neurodegenerative burden may be useful as these features often coexist in older people, stroke and dementia. Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke spoke to Dr David Dickie from the University of Glasgow lead author of 'The Brain Health Index: Towards a combined measure of neurovascular and neurodegenerative structural brain injury'. The author aimed to develop a new automated approach for...

Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and effective treatment requires rapid diagnosis and recognition of relevant vascular lesions. Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke spoke to Dr Brett Graham from the Calgary Stroke Program in Saskatchewan lead author of the review Computed tomographic angiography in stroke and high risk TIA: Don’t leave the ED without it!   In this review the authors discuss the usefulness and...

Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, managing editor of the IJS chatted to Fienburg award recipient, Johanna Wardlaw

Interview on the ground with Michael Mlynash

This podcast interview is based on the article Cerebral amyloid angiopathy associated with inflammation (CAA-I): a systematic review of clinical and imaging features and outcome, by Andrej Corovic, Siobhan Kelly and Hugh Markus. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy associated with inflammation (CAA-I) is an increasingly recognised condition, characterised by an inflammatory response to the vascular deposits of β-amyloid within the brain that are the hallmark of cerebral amyloid angiopathy...

Susac syndrome (SuS) affects the brain, retina, and inner ear. And whose treatment is particularly challenging. Adding to the challenge is the absence of objective biomarkers of disease activity and the great variability in presentation, timing and extent of peak severity, duration of peak severity, and natural disease course.  I’m Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke to Dr Robert Rennebohm from The Susac Syndrome Consultation Service at...

Shared decision making after severe stroke- how can we improve patient and family involvement in treatment decisions? Akila Visvanathan from The University of Edinburgh, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences You have probably heard someone say, at least once in your lifetime that they would rather die than attempt to live after a severe stroke, which could leave them permanently disabled. But when survivors of severe stroke and serious disability are asked that question after the event they...

The PRE-hospital Stroke Treatment Organization (PRESTO) was formed in 2016 as an international consortium of medical practitioners involved in pre-hospital treatment of patients with acute stroke. PRESTO’s mission is to improve stroke outcomes by supporting research and advocacy for pre- hospital stroke treatment in Mobile Stroke Units. The plan is that PRESTO will provide a platform to enhance collaborative research across the spectrum of acute stroke management in the pre-hospital setting....

Thanh Phan; Monash University, Department of Medicine  It has been forty years since the ischaemic penumbra was first conceptualised through work on animal models. The topography of penumbra has been portrayed as an infarcted core surrounded by penumbral tissue and an extreme rim of oligaemic tissue. In the paper‘Refining the Ischaemic Penumbra with Topography’ first Author Thanh Phan et al reviewed the understanding of the topography of the ischaemic penumbra from the initial experimental...