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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Study shows potential of uric acid as add-on therapy for stroke

 
Several earlier studies that your doctor and hospital probably did nothing on to get more research done and protocols created. How fucking incompetent can your stroke medical team be and still be employed?  Human testing needed. Will your doctors and hospital DO ANYTHING AT ALL to get that done? If not, your board of directors is completely incompetent.

Middle cerebral artery remodeling following transient brain ischemia is linked to early postischemic hyperemia: a target of uric acid treatment February 2015 

Uric Acid Therapy Improves Clinical Outcome in Women With Acute Ischemic Stroke July 2015 

Uric Acid Boosts 'Clot-Busting' Therapy for Stroke July 2015 

Gout Culprit Promising as Acute Stroke Tx - Uric acid February 2014

Uric Acid Contributes to Obesity-Paradox of the Outcome of Ischemic Stroke January 2020 


SPAN Study Finds a Winner for Treating Stroke in Rodents February 2023

The latest here:

Study shows potential of uric acid as add-on therapy for stroke

In a preclinical study, rodents treated with uric acid showed improved long-term outcomes after acute ischemic stroke. The findings suggest that the treatment may work as an add-on therapy to standard stroke treatments in humans. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in Stroke.(Why was this study needed when the February 2023 study already proved that? Everyone in stroke is a complete blithering idiot because they don't know about earlier research? I'd fire everyone in this!) 

Led by Enrique Leira, M.D., and Anil Chauhan, Ph.D., at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, researchers used a well-established rodent model of stroke that closely simulates stroke in humans. They administered intravenous uric acid or saline control and monitored animals' recovery over one month. Behavioral and neurological assessments, including MRI scans, were used to evaluate the treatment's effects.

Mice treated with uric acid had better sensorimotor function—the primary outcome measure—30 days after stroke. More animals in the uric acid group also survived their stroke compared to control animals. However, some secondary outcome measures, such as brain damage, were not reduced.

The research teams used equal numbers of male and female animals and studied older, young, and obese mice, as well as rats with hypertension. Uric acid was efficacious across all groups, suggesting that the treatment could potentially perform well in human trials, including in people with stroke comorbidities.

Ischemic stroke, a leading cause of disability and death in the United States, occurs when a blood clot or other blockage in an artery cuts off blood supply to the brain. Strokes are treated with medications or surgery aimed to break up clots and restore blood flow to affected brain areas. These therapies are highly effective, but not all people fully recover. Using additional treatments that protect brain tissue from damage, either immediately before or during clot removal, could boost the effects of standard treatments and greatly improve recovery in patients.

The study was part of the NIH's Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN), a rigorous, transparent approach to preclinical research that mimics clinical trials. SPAN applies standard clinical practices, like randomization and blinded analysis, to animal studies, with the goal of finding agents that are likely to succeed in clinical trials. Recently, the network tested six promising stroke treatments and found one, uric acid, that showed efficacy. The current study described the results of this trial.

The study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) (U01NS113388, U24NS113452) and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (R35HL139926).

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Journal reference:

Patel, R. B., et al. (2025). Uric Acid Stroke Cerebroprotection Transcended Sex, Age, and Comorbidities in a Multicenter Preclinical Trial. Stroke. doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.124.048748.

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