9 posts going back to 2014 show memantine being useful for stroke recovery. And yet I see nothing in the ASA, NSA or WSO about this or any reference to a memantine protocol anywhere. Once again proving we have NO stroke leadership and NO stroke strategy. Obviously nobody cares. Your doctor doesn't care. Your stroke hospital doesn't care. You're screwed along with your children and grandchildren. Hopefully schadenfreude hits the appropriate people.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=177557&CultureCode=en
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability and death
globally, but medications have generally failed to benefit patients. A
new study found that memantine, a drug that is used to treat dementia
associated with Alzheimer's disease, may be a promising therapy.
The study examined the effect of memantine on blood levels of
neuron-specific enolase (NSE), a marker of neuronal damage, and the
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in patients with moderate TBI. The GCS is the
most common scoring system used to describe the level of consciousness
in a person following a TBI.
Patients with moderate TBI who received memantine had significantly
reduced blood levels of NSE by day 7 and marked improvements in their
GCS scores on day 3 of the study.
The study is published in The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
Access the Paper:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcph.980/full
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