Tianjin Huanhu Hospital

This study tested whether a special balloon procedure, called direct ischemic post-conditioning, can reduce brain injury in people who just had a stroke from a large blocked artery. Sixty patients were randomly assigned to get either standard clot removal alone or clot removal pl…

This study tested a technique called ischemic postconditioning in 60 stroke patients who already had a procedure to remove a clot. After the clot was removed, doctors briefly stopped and restarted blood flow in the affected artery four times. The goal was to see if this extra ste…