A novel treatment combining surgery with middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization significantly reduces the recurrence of chronic subdural hematomas. The new technique from the EMBOLISE clinical study, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, has the potential to significantly change treatment approaches for the condition, which is projected…

Research led by the Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) shows a specific risk score can predict the risk of patients’ developing epilepsy after experiencing a cerebral venous thrombosis, a type of rare stroke. As reported in JAMA Neurology, the score included six factors: age at onset, cerebral hemorrhage, having seizures…