Deans' stroke musings: Shanghai claims breakthrough to treat brain aneurysms

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.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Shanghai claims breakthrough to treat brain aneurysms

See how long it is before your doctor becomes aware of this solution
http://my.medicarepublic.com/shanghai-claims-breakthrough-to-treat-brain-aneurysms/

A brain aneurysm can be a deadly time bomb, if it’s not detected early enough. Now, one hospital in Shanghai is claiming a breakthrough in the development of a new device, which doctors say can stem recurrence rates for larger aneurysms.

Doctor Liu Jianmin from Shanghai Changhai Hospital is getting ready for his next surgery…But this time, it won’t be behind closed doors. The micro-surgery procedure will be broadcast live to the World Neurovascular Conference in Chicago. That’s because Doctor Liu is inserting a brand new device, a flow diverter called a Tubridge. It can help to control blood flow into the aneurysm, and actually make it shrink. The device was jointly developed by the hospital and the Micro Port Scientific Corporation, which is also based in Shanghai.
“In our clinical tests, we’ve shown that the cure rate for larger aneurysms is higher than 90-percent. It produces much better results than the traditional treatment,” said doctor Liu.
A cerebral aneurysm is a weak or thin spot on a blood vessel in the brain that balloons up and fills with blood. The bulging aneurysm can put pressure on a nerve or surrounding brain tissue. Aneurysms can later burst and bleed into the brain, causing serious complications or even death.
It’s taken 8 years of hard work to develop the Tubridge. But it looks like the efforts of Doctor Liu and the hospital may be about to pay off.
“We gradually realized that behind the bulging aneurysm is a lesion of the vascular wall. The device we use is to fix the wall. Once the wall is fixed, the aneurysm will become small and will heal,” he said.
Treating brain aneurysms is highly precise and complex work. And that means it’s also very expensive. It’s hoped that this latest innovation will be a step towards a cheaper cost and a greater number of successful cures.