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Over 50 students took part in the PRESTIGE-AF Escape Room as part of the STEM Futures programme

On 15-16 June, the PRESTIGE-AF team exhibited at the Great Exhibition Road Festival (GERF) 2024, a two-day extravaganza of all things science and art.

On the 15-16 May, the PRESTIGE-AF team exhibited the Escape Room activity at 10th Anniversary of the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC)

On 11-12 March, members of the PRESTIGE-AF team from Imperial College London ran the PRESTIGE-AF Escape Room at the European Life After Stroke Forum (ELASF) 2024 in Dublin, Ireland.

This International Women's Day we spoke with Prof. Valeria Caso about what #InspireInclusion means to her

New PRESTIGE-AF research predicts that deaths from intracerebral haemorrhages (ICH) will increase by 8.9% across Europe by 2050 – with some countries expected to have increases of up to 74.4%.

On 19 January, members of the PRESTIGE-AF team from Imperial College London ran the PRESTIGE-AF Escape Room at the University of Würzburg’s 6th Joint Winter School in translational medicine and clinical science.

We have officially closed recruitment to the PRESTIGE-AF clinical trial with a total of 319 participants.

For the first time in four years, the PRESTIGE-AF consortium were able to meet in-person for the project's sixth annual meeting.

The PRESTIGE-AF team showed their support of #WorldStrokeDay by highlighting the importance of further research on stroke prevention and treatment.

Dr Eleni Korompoki and Professor Gregory Lip discuss the evidence behind LAAO for ICH survivors with AF, and what the right course of action might be for these patients.

Dr Lucio D'Anna discusses the use of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches, such as left atrial appendage occlusion, to decrease stroke risk in this challenging patient group with Dr Andreas Charidimou, an instructor in neurology at Boston University Medical Center.

Learn about our new resources for involving patients in the decision-making process.

Learn about how PRESTIGE-AF engaged visitors at Imperial Lates using a pop-up escape room.

The PRESTIGE-AF trial has officially recruited 150 patients.

Learn about how members of the PRESTIGE-AF consortium engaged young people from underrepresented groups with stroke research.

The second event in Stroke Alliance Europe's #LifeAfterStroke series, this free webinar will explore intimacy and sex after stroke.

Tune-in! PRESTIGE-AF researchers, Prof Valeria Caso and Dr Fracesco Corea are live streaming (in Italian) at 3pm CET TODAY (04 March) about the PRESTIGE-AF trial in Italy.

After almost 3 months of suspension due to COVID-19, the PRESTIGE-AF Study has resumed recruitment of participants.

Following the successful bid for funding from the European Commission, the PRESTIGE-AF Consortium members came together for the project's kick-off meeting which took place on Wednesday 6th December 2017 and hosted by Imperial College London.

A new 6,9 million euro initiative has been launched with the aim of enhancing more established measures around Stroke prevention in patients with a heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AF) who have previously had a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain (termed intracerebral haemorrhage or ICH).