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NMT Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: NMTI) announced today that the Company has completed patient enrollment in its pivotal patent foramen ovale (PFO)/stroke clinical trial, CLOSURE I. NMT believes it is the first company to complete enrollment of a prospective, multi-center, randomized, controlled study that examines the potential relationship between PFO and stroke and transient ischemic attacks (TIA). The Company also believes it will be first to submit a premarket approval (PMA) application to the...

New guidelines aimed at pushing up the quality of care for stroke patients have been published today. People suspected of having a stroke should be admitted to a specialist unit, where they should receive clot-busting drugs as soon as possible, the guidelines say. Those who have suffered a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) - sometimes called a "mini-stroke" - should also be diagnosed and treated within 24 hours. A TIA causes stroke-like symptoms which usually disappear within a day, but it...

By Jeremy Laurance Health Editor Thousands of lives could be saved and thousands more saved from permanent disability if all patients with suspected strokes were admitted to a specialist unit and, where appropriate, treated rapidly with clot-busting drugs, an NHS watchdog said. Stroke affects 110,000 people a year and claims 50,000 lives; it kills more women than breast cancer but has never enjoyed the high profile of other more fashionable conditions. The condition costs the NHS more than...

NMT Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: NMTI) today announced that it will release its second-quarter 2008 financial results before the market opens on Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Management will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (ET) that morning to review the Company's financial results and provide a business update. Individuals interested in listening to the live webcast of the conference call should log onto the "Investors" section of NMT Medical's website, www.nmtmedical.com. The call also...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Short-term exposure to low levels of particulate air pollution may increase the risk of stroke or mini-stroke, according to findings that suggest current exposure standards could be insufficient to protect the public. "The vast majority of the public is exposed to ambient air pollution at the levels observed in this community or greater every day, suggesting a potentially large public health impact," said Lynda Lisabeth, lead author and assistant professor in the...

Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown. "Millions of people use low-dose aspirin either for prevention of a second stroke, second heart attack or second episode of peripheral artery disease," said Francis M. Gengo, Pharm.D., lead researcher on the study. Gengo is...

By Hans, S S Aim. Evaluate the results of carotid re-exploration for post- carotid endarterectomy (CEA) thrombosis associated with major neurological deficit. Methods. Data obtained from ongoing vascular registry. Retrospective analysis of 2216 consecutive CEAs performed in a single surgical practice. Results. New neurological deficits developed in 53 patients (2.4%) following CEA. Fourteen patients sustained intraoperative stroke. Of 33 patients with postoperative stroke, nine patients had...

By Damush, Teresa M Plue, Laurie; Bakas, Tamilyn; Schmid, Arlene; Williams, Linda S Physical activity after stroke may prevent disability and stroke recurrence; yet, physical impairments may inhibit post-stroke exercise and subsequently limit recovery. The goal of this study was to elicit barriers to and facilitators of exercise after stroke. We conducted three focus groups and achieved content saturation from 13 stroke survivors-eight men and five women-85% of whom were African American and...

By Charnicia Huggins NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Birthdays may be a more risky time for some older folks, results of a new study suggest. The findings show that visits to the emergency department for stroke, heart attack, and other vascular events are more common on birthdays than on other days, particularly among individuals with high blood pressure. The results suggest that birthdays may have a role in triggering strokes, transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and heart attacks, study...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Impaired glucose tolerance, a precursor to full-blown diabetes, is associated with an increased risk of stroke in non-diabetic patients who have already experienced a minor or mini-stroke, Dutch researchers report. Symptoms of a mini-stroke, known medically as a transient ischemic attack (TIA), are exactly the same as those of a full-fledged stroke, but resolve within 24 hours. While TIAs in themselves cause no long-term problems, they substantially...