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 6, 2011

Brain stents kill stroke patients

Talk to your doctor, bring the study. Read the last line on cholesterol.
http://healthrevelations.com/2011/10/07/brain-stents/

Six years ago, the feds rushed the approval of brain stents for patients facing a high risk of stroke, claiming they needed to act quickly on “compassionate” grounds.

Today, I just have to wonder whose compassion they had in mind — because it’s certainly not those stroke patients: They began dropping dead so quickly and so often that the latest study on the stents had to be cut short.

And instead of waiting to get the results published, the researchers quickly posted them online to help spread the word to docs around the world that this “treatment” is more like a death sentence.

In the doomed study, researchers gave 450 patients who had suffered a stroke or stroke-like symptoms either the usual treatments to reduce risk factors or the stents, which are supposed to open narrowed arteries in the brain.

In the first 30 days after treatment, 15 percent of the stent patients had a second stroke or died — versus just 6 percent of those in the control group. Over the course of a year, 20.5 percent of the stent patients had a stroke or died, versus 11.5 percent of those in the control group.

The researchers say they’re still trying to figure out why the stent patients had such a dramatically higher risk of stroke and death, but does it even matter at this point?

The risks are just way too high, and that brings us back to square one — because there’s still no surefire way to eliminate your risk of stroke, and any drug or treatment that claims otherwise is selling an empty promise.

The best and only way to protect yourself is to focus on lifestyle changes, and not the ones your doctor has been recommending.

He’ll probably tell you that cholesterol has something to do with stroke — even the National Stroke Association puts it high on the list, right after hypertension and atrial fibrillation. But a study earlier this year found that LDL levels were only a stroke risk factor in men when they reached the sky-high level of 350.

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