An ambitious, nationwide clinical trial led by UVA Health's Karen Johnston, MD, has provided doctors with long-needed insights into the importance of managing stroke patients' blood sugar after treatment with clot-busting therapy.
May 13 2024University of Virginia Health System An ambitious, nationwide clinical trial led by UVA Health's Karen Johnston, MD, has provided doctors with long-needed insights into the importance of managing stroke patients' blood sugar after treatment with clot-busting therapy. The findings will help improve stroke care and save lives.
This is the first large-scale prospective clinical trial in stroke patients to provide data on the post-treatment effects of high blood sugar on the risk of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage with thrombolysis. These data suggest that more focus and research is needed on the management of high blood sugar in the treatment of stroke patients, particularly those with higher risk, more severe strokes.
In general, high blood sugar after thrombolysis was associated with a greater risk for a brain bleed and with poor outcomes overall, particularly in the early post-treatment period, the researchers report.
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