Prof. Rustam Salman
- Personal Chair of Clinical Neurology
- Rustam.Al-Shahi@ed.ac.uk
Organisation Associations
School of Regeneration and Repair
School of Population Health Sciences
School of Population Health Sciences
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Edinburgh Neuroscience
Edinburgh Imaging
Cerebrovascular Research Group
Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit
School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences
Current research interests
- Therapeutic dilemmas in everyday clinical practice provoked by mutlimorbidity with intracranial haemorrhage (ASPIRING, RESTART, SoSTART, TRIDENT, PROHIBIT-ICH, and ENRICH-AF randomised controlled trials)
- Translational approaches to identifying therapeutic targets for inflammatory pathways after intracerebral haemorrhage (NICHE programme)
- Causes and consequences of stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage (LATCH community-based cohort study and LINCHPIN genetic, imaging, and neuropathology study)
- Prognosis and treatment of intracranial vascular malformations in adults (SAIVMs population-based cohort study)
Research in a nutshell
The deadliest type of stroke is caused by spontaneous bleeding from blood vessels into the brain, known as brain haemorrhage. This disease affects about 10,000 adults in the UK, and about 2 million adults in the world, each year. Two out of five people affected die within one month of the bleed and another two remain dependent on their families or carers, leaving only one person out of five independent.
I use a variety of clinical research designs, including systematic reviews, case-control and cohort studies, and randomised controlled trials to better understand the causes, consequences, and treatment of brain haemorrhage.