Stroke Prevention and Therapy

4:00PM Patient Selection for Novel Stroke Therapy Using Advance Imaging
Michael H. Lev, MD, Director, Emergency Neuroradiology and Neurovascular Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, mlev@partners.org
Moderator: David B. Hackney, MD, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, dhackney@bidmc.harvard.edu

Currently, only 3-5% of the 750,000+ stroke patients per year in the United States are treated with IV-tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) - the only FDA approved medical treatment for acute stroke - within the required 3 hour time window from stroke onset. With the judicious use of advanced CT and MR imaging, however, the time window for such IV therapy has the potential to be expanded up to nine hours, which could result in a greatly increased pool of eligible patients. Both the technical standardization / validation of these CT and MR perfusion techniques, as well as the major clinical trials supporting their implementation, will be discussed.

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5:00PM New Perspectives in the Imaging of Carotid Artery Plaque
Javier Romero, MD, Director, Ultrasound; Associate Director, Neurovascular Laboratory; Staff Radiologist, Neuroradiology; Staff Radiologist, Pediatric Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor Radiology, Harvard Medical School, rmromero@partners.org
Moderator: Rajiv Gupta, MD, Cardiac and Neuro Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, rgupta1@partners.org

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