ssolving drug called alteplase can safely lessen disability in ICH patients.
“If we can identify those at risk and offer treatment options to reduce that risk, then we can improve outcomes,” Greenberg said.
Sometimes, bleeding in the brain can be caused by blood-thinning medicines and until recently, there were limited options to reverse that excessive bleeding. One of the oldest oral blood-thinners, warfarin, can be reversed with Vitamin K [thus helping treat the stroke].
But newer anticoagulants did not have a reversal agent until 2015. That’s when a drug called idarucizumab was approved in emergency situations to reverse the effects of dabigatran, a blood thinner sold under the name Pradaxa to treat conditions such as atrial fibrillation. Trials for other reversal drugs are ongoing.
“We have some exciting things going on in stroke,” Benson said.
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