Drug Treatment Shows Promise for Brain Blood Vessel Abnormality

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation -- a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke -- for the first time in a new study. Fasudil shows potential as a valuable new tool in addressing a clinical problem that is currently treatable only with complex surgery.

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