Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
Open Access

Maria Luisa Sacchetti

Biography

At present she is involved in studies on the Pathophysiology of sleep apnea at the long-term of stroke. She is publishing articles describing the prevalence and the type of SDB in stable stroke patients, addressing the question as to whether stroke may also alter the structure of sleep (and consequently breathing), not only vice-versa as most of literature reports Thank to her organizational education and skills, she developed clinical and organizational pathways dedicated to stroke patients. She published on stroke organization from emergency back to home in the Lazio Region She contributed to investigate the effectiveness of reperfusion therapy in acute stroke, addressed the question as to whether neuroprotective drugs may counteract reperfusion injury, and the potential for combined rt-PA plus neuroprotection She is an international expert on the pathophysiology of stroke in humans. She contributed to discover that the vast majority of strokes are embolic in nature, and to introduce the concept of the time-spam useful to save cerebral tissue from death after arterial occlusion (therapeutic window) She started up the 2nd Level Master Degree on Cerebrovascular Diseases (2003 – 2010) at Sapienza-University of Rome, dedicated to physicians that wanted to become Stroke expert and Chair Stroke Units in Italy.

Research Interest

Sleep disordered breathing, Stroke management, Acute ischemic stroke therapy,Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of acute stroke,Stroke Education