Stroke Alert May 2022

<p>On Episode 16 of the <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast, Dr. Negar Asdaghi highlights two articles from the May issue of <em>Stroke</em>: “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.034612">Number of Affected Relatives, Age, Smoking, and Hypertension Prediction Score for Intracranial Aneurysms in Persons With a Family History for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage</a>” and “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.034934">Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke With or Without General Anesthesia</a>.” She also interviews Dr. Patrick Lyden on “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.038047">The Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network: Rationale, Design, Feasibility, and Stage 1 Results</a>.”</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:         Let's start with some questions.</p> <p>1) How is it that stroke can be cured in rodents but not in humans?</p> <p>2) Are we wasting time or gaining time with general anesthesia before endovascular thrombectomy?</p> <p>3) My father had an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, Doctor. What is my risk of having an aneurysm, and how often should we check for one?</p> <p>We're back here with the <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast to tackle the toughest questions in the field because this is the best in <em>Stroke</em>. Stay with us.</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:         Welcome back to the May 2022 issue of the <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast. My name is Negar Asdaghi. I'm an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and your host for the monthly <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast. For the May 2022 issue of <em>Stroke</em>, we have a number of papers that I'd like to highlight. We have seven articles as part of our <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/toc/str/53/5#d57587250e110">Focused Update on the topic of neuroimmunology and stroke</a>, organized by our own <em>Stroke</em> editors, Drs. Johannes Boltze and Miguel Perez-Pinzon. We also have an <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.