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New findings from Massachusetts General Hospital in the area of health and medicine published

Published in Blood Weekly, October 21st, 2010

According to recent research published in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, "Acute basilar artery occlusion (ABAO) is a devastating disease that can produce significant brainstem injury. Pretreatment diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) demonstrating extensive brainstem involvement has been shown to predict a poor outcome regardless of reperfusion."

"This case report describes a patient presenting with coma secondary to ABAO. MRI at presentation demonstrated significant DWI abnormality in the majority of the bilateral pons. The basilar artery was endovascularly recanalized 8 h after stroke onset, and the patient had a marked clinical recovery with no...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-10-21)

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