Medical management alone may be best treatment course for stroke prevention, study suggests

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

Patients with narrowed arteries in the brain who received intensive medical treatment had fewer strokes and deaths than patients who received a brain stent in addition to medical treatment, according to the initial results from the first, nationwide stroke prevention trial to compare the two treatment options.

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