Cutting-Edge Article Looks At Current Perspectives in Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment
(PRWEB UK) 29 May 2014 -- European Neurological Review, the peer-reviewed journal, publishes an article that summarises the content of a symposium that took place during the 21st World Congress of Neurology in Vienna, Austria. It aims to describe the vascular and cellular processes that are involved in the maintenance of the blood–brain barrier (BBB), the cells involved in the neurovascular unit (NVU) and its dysfunction in stroke resulting in poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) for many patients.
Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is a particularly serious consequence of cerebral ischaemia and often inhibits or retards patient rehabilitation. Current treatments do not improve long-term outcomes for a significant proportion of patients and remain a substantially unmet medical need. Initiatives to address the challenge of post-stroke rehabilitation have included therapies that modify multiple pathogenetic mechanisms and provide protection to neural networks and facilitate their regeneration. Promising biological agents have been tested, but few have so far yielded clinically conclusive evidence further emphasising the shortage of therapies available to treat this disease. The multimolecular agent Actovegin® has been shown to stimulate capillary flow and neurometabolism after stroke and to provide promising results in the treatment of mixed dementia. Clinical trials are now in progress to fully evaluate this pleiotropic neurometabolic therapy.
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