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Latest Treatments for Cerebral hemorrhage

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Medical Research Breakthroughs and Cerebral hemorrhage

New way to control bleeding in the brain: A multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins doctors has fine-tuned the dosage and timing for administering clot-busting tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to patients with strokes caused by bleeding within the brain. The treatment has been shown to dramatically decrease death and disability in patients with this typically lethal subset of stroke. The condition, known as intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), causes blood to clot inside the brain's interior cavities, building up pressure within the brain. Until recently, no treatment existed for this subset of stroke.The new research builds on a series of previous studies designed to test the safety and efficacy of clot-busting drugs in patients with ICH. This treatment, clears the trapped blood out of the brain by bathing-and dissolving-the clot directly in tPA. This drug normally isn't recommended for conditions that involve bleeding, such as ICH, because it can increase the risk of further haemorrhage. However, since high-dose (80 to 100 mg) tPA is effective at breaking up clots in other conditions, such as heart attacks and other types of strokes, the team wondered whether very low doses of the drug might be a safe and effective way to treat ICH. Tracking patients' progress with daily CT scans, the researchers found that the clots dissolved within three to four days on average, with patients on 1 milligram of tPA every 8 hours dissolving their clots about a day faster than those on the other treatment regimens. This timing is about two to three times faster than that of previous patients who didn't receive tPA. Hanley notes that additional bleeding among all the patients was minimal; those treated with tPA weren't any more likely to have additional haemorrhage than those past patients who didn't receive the drug. One month after treatment, more than 80 percent of the patients were alive, and 10 percent of these had recovered enough to return to their jobs, the researchers report.

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Clinical Trials for Cerebral hemorrhage

Some of the clinical trials for Cerebral hemorrhage include:

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Cerebral hemorrhage

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