Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Perioperative stroke, a major complication of cardiac and thoracic aortic surgeries, has many possible origins, ...

Steps for reducing the risk of stroke in patients undergoing heart surgery are detailed in a new American Heart Association Scientific Statement, "Considerations for Reduction of Risk of Perioperative ...

There is no consensus on whether patients taking oral anticoagulation medications who need to undergo surgery should receive perioperative intravenous heparin or subcutaneous low-molecular-weight ...

BOSTON — The risk for ischemic stroke during or within 30 days of noncardiac surgery is more than doubled in patients previously diagnosed with a patent foramen ovale (PFO), suggests an observational ...