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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative condition that predominantly affects older people, with a rising prevalence worldwide.1,2 There are many on-going challenges and unmet needs in PD: difficulties in making an accurate diagnosis (particularly in the early stages of the disease), troubling side effects associated with the available pharmacological treatments, a lack of effective disease-modifying therapies […]

Jeffrey L Saver & Natan Bornstein, ESOC 2019 – ImpACT-24B

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Published Online: Jun 13th 2019

Trial investigators Jeffrey L Saver and Natan Bornstein share results and insights from the Implant for Augmentation of Cerebral Blood Flow Trial, Effectiveness and Safety in a 24 Hour Window (ImpACT-24B; NCT00826059). The aim of this international, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled, pivotal trial was to determine whether sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation 8-24 h after acute ischaemic stroke improved functional outcome.

Content produced in Milan, Italy and shared with kind authorisation of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC 2019). 

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