Deans' stroke musings: Aneurysm glue saves lives without major surgery, doctors say

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Aneurysm glue saves lives without major surgery, doctors say

I thought I had posted about this earlier. Wonder if it could by used to plug the bleeders without the need to do open brain surgery. Don't listen to me, there is no medical background behind this question.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20071070-10391704.html
Doctors and patients are bursting with excitement over an innovative new treatment for aneurysms - those potentially deadly weakened portions of blood vessel walls.

It's basically glue.

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Researchers have tried out the super glue-like substance, called Onyx, and say it's a reasonable alternative to conventional surgical treatments, CBS News correspondent Don Teague reported Monday on "The Early Show."

Does it work?

It did for Col. Amy Bechtold. The Air Force judge survived tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan but nearly died after a bad case of ringing in the ears led her to seek medical care, which revealed an aneurysm in her brain. Her neurosurgeon, Dr. Christopher Koebbe, said she needed immediate surgery.

"The danger of an aneurysm is that it could rupture, causing a massive brain hemorrhage," he told CBS News. "If that were to happen, there would be a 50 to 60 percent chance that a patient would die or be disabled from that hemorrhage."

Death and disability from ruptured aneurysms affect 25,000 people each year, according to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

How does the glue work? Doctors pump it to the brain via a catheter inserted in the groin. Upon reaching the aneurysm, the glue solidifies, strengthening the blood vessel wall to keep blood from leaking out.

"This is a great advancement," Koebbe told CBS News. "We can basically fill the aneurysm from the inside out."

It's fast too. In Bechtold's case, the procedure took less than an hour.

"To have brain surgery and go home the day after," she said, "to me, that is mind-boggling."