People who've had a stroke face a significantly higher risk of serious complications if they have an elective surgery during the nine months following their stroke, according to a new Danish study.

A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency ...

There are other causes of leg weakness around the time of surgery. If they gave you spinal anesthesia, it’s possible that the ...

Intraoperative hypotension and disseminated cancer are independent predictors of postoperative stroke in patients receiving cancer surgery.

A common cause of stroke is the buildup of gooey, cholesterol-filled plaque inside arteries that nourish the brain. Clearing these blood vessels (the carotid arteries, which run up either side of the ...

Researchers have found in a new study that adding Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) during cardiac surgery in patients ...

Current clinical guidelines used to determine when patients can safely undergo surgery following a stroke may be too conservative and could be delaying important care for cancer and other “semi-urgent ...

A history of stroke was associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and death, particularly if time elapsed between stroke and surgery was less than 9 months, according to ...

A grandmother who "looked like a monster" after suffering a stroke has smiled for the first time in years thanks to pioneering surgery to move the nerves in her face. Jarmila Hawes, 56, was told she ...

An analysis of data on more than 45,000 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at an academic medical center over the past 30 years finds that the occurrence of stroke ...

Ann Fulk, 24, has had her fair share of hospital visits for someone her age. She was in a serious car accident in 2022 that shattered her bones, resulted in 10 surgeries and confined her to a ...