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.

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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, June 4, 2015

Re-Inflating Balloon After Carotid Stenting Appears to Double Risk of Stroke, Death

Be careful out there.
Re-Inflating Balloon After Carotid Stenting Appears to Double Risk of Stroke, Death
After reviewing outcomes from thousands of cases, researchers report that patients with blocked neck arteries who undergo carotid stenting to prop open the narrowed blood vessels fare decidedly worse if their surgeons re-inflate a tiny balloon in the vessel after the mesh stent is in place.
Although the overall risk of stroke and death is low in patients who undergo carotid stenting, the common practice of “ballooning” the vessel after the wire mesh is inserted can double the risk of death and stroke during or shortly after the procedure
The findings are published online in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Ballooning after placing the stent appears to cause the very complication it's intended to prevent,” said senior author Mahmoud Malas, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. “Surgeons should avoid doing it. Period.”
For the current study, the researchers analysed stroke and death risk in more than 3,700 patients aged 19 to 89 years who had carotid stenting between 2005 and 2014 in hospitals across the United States and whose outcomes were reported in the Vascular Quality Initiative, a national repository of vascular surgery outcomes.
One group of patients had pre-stent ballooning only, another was treated with post-stent ballooning only, and a third group had the combination technique involving balloon use both before and after stent placement.
While the overall risk of stroke and death was relatively low -- 2.4% of patients had a stroke within 30 days of treatment and <1% died -- those treated with combination pre and post-stent ballooning were twice as likely to suffer a stroke or die. Those who had post-stent ballooning alone also had an elevated risk but in the final analysis, the difference did not reach statistical significance.

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