Deans' stroke musings: Thrombin Activity Associated with Neuronal Damage during Acute Stage of Ischemic Stroke

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.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Thrombin Activity Associated with Neuronal Damage during Acute Stage of Ischemic Stroke

A new hyperacute damage finding.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/cmc-ais013112.php
After ischemic stroke – the type caused by a clogged artery but with no bleeding into the brain – a normal protein that plays a positive role in blood clotting escapes intact arteries and seriously damages healthy brain cells. Scientists previously knew that thrombin leaked out during hemorrhagic strokes, and large amounts of the protein killed neurons. In new studies, researchers found thrombin in the brain after ischemic stroke; injecting a drug to counter the effects of thrombin improved stroke symptoms. Patrick D. Lyden, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology, the Carmen and Louis Warschaw Chair in Neurology at Cedars-Sinai and senior author of the poster presentation abstract, is available for interviews.