Deans' stroke musings: No association between migraine frequency, white matter lesions and silent brain infarctions: A study in a series of women with chronic migraine

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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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.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

No association between migraine frequency, white matter lesions and silent brain infarctions: A study in a series of women with chronic migraine

They seem to have totally missed testing migraine with aura, that data point should have been included by the senior researcher.

Migraine with aura – but not without – increases risk of stroke Sept. 2017

The latest here:

No association between migraine frequency, white matter lesions and silent brain infarctions: A study in a series of women with chronic migraine

Meilán A, Larrosa D, Ramón C

European Journal of Neurology|May 21, 2020

Since silent infarctions (SIs) and hyperintense white matter lesions (WMLs) are related to the frequency of migraine, researchers analyzed their prevalence and anatomical distribution in chronic migraine (CM) patients. In total, 96 women with CM [mean age 43 (range 16–65) years] and 29 women with episodic migraine (EM) [mean age 36 (range 16–58) years] had 1.5‐T MRI following the CAMERA protocol. In 59 (61.5%) women with CM and 17 (58.6%) women with EM, white matter lesions were found. Compared with the anticipated prevalence at this age, this investigation demonstrates that the prevalence of WMLs in CM and EM has been increased, in most cases small, deep and frontal. The results, however, do not support a combination of WMLs or SIs with a higher frequency of attacks but with the presence of vascular risk factors and mainly age > 45 years.

Read the full article on European Journal of Neurology.