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.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Medical Edge: Brain Aneurysm - Flow Diverter

Another option to consult with your doctor about. It joins the options for handling aneurysms, coiling, surgery, mesh, and glue   being the others. I can't visualize how this is done and I can't find any images for it.
http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S2677160.shtml?cat=10799
Untreated aneurysms, or ballooning of blood vessels, can grow and possibly rupture, causing brain damage or even death.

If an aneurysm ruptured, blood would pool in the brain causing a hemorrhagic stroke. That stroke would result in brain damage, or even death.

Aneurysms used to mean major surgery, but now there are less invasive options for many people. It's called a Flow Diverter, and it works by redirecting the blood flow away from the aneurysm.

"What we are doing is putting nothing else than a screen to change or redirect the flow away from the aneurysm,” said Dr. Ricardo Hanel, Mayo Clinic Neurosurgeon.

During the procedure, Dr. Hanel inserts a catheter and runs it up to the site of the aneurysm. He deploys the diverter device, which redirects blood flow. Over the next few months, the entrance to the aneurysm becomes clotted and closed off, creating a new vessel wall.

"We are just at the beginning of experience with this device -- but I expect to see over five, ten years that these aneurysms that were closed at six months, they'll remain closed for the rest of the life and they will never come back."

The Flow Diverter device is FDA approved for aneurysms 10 millimeters or larger.

Dr. Hanel suspects that soon, it will be approved for smaller ones as well.

The Neuro network posting with pictures below.
http://theneuronetwork.com/group/neurointerventional/forum/topics/flow-diverter-stents






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