Stroke occurs when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked by a clot or bursts, cutting off oxygen and blood to part of the brain. It is a leading cause of death and disability. Every minute of untreated stroke, the brain loses neurons and tissue. However, early treatment within a few hours can reverse stroke in many patients. Signs of stroke include sudden weakness, numbness, trouble speaking - and it is crucial to immediately go to the hospital for treatment and not wait for potential improvement. With modern interventions like clot-busting drugs or removing clots through interventional techniques, blood flow can be restored and the brain tissue salvaged to fully or partially recover from stroke.

1. STROKE

2. What is stroke and what causes it?
Stroke is a disease that effects the blood vessels going to the brain Stroke
happens when blood vessel going to the brain gets blocked by a clot or bursts.
As a result of it part of brain doesn’t bet oxygen and blood it needs and dies
It is 3rd
most common cause of death and disability

3. Why do We say “time is brain
- “meaning that stroke is a
emergency “
•Every minute if stroke is untreated, the average patient loses 1.9 million
neurons, 13.8 billion synapses, and 12 km (7 miles) of axonal fibers. Each hour, in
which treatment fails to occur, the brain loses as many neuron as it does in
almost 3.6 years of normal aging.
•Early treatment in first few hours can reverse stroke in many patients
Act in Time

4. hoW can one knoW
that
stroke is
happening?
What is
act
“Fast”?

5.
Is it possible to prevent stroke?
What should be done if stroke is happening?
Immediately go to a hospital which can do stroke treatment
Do not wait for improvement
Don’t take BP medicine
If CT doesn’t show any bleed, Aspirin tablet

6. Is it possible to reverse stroke?
If the blocked blood vessel can re-opened brain tissue can be saved
If patient comes in first few hours (4.5 hrs), clot busting drug (t-PA) cab ne given
Blood vessel can also be opened by intervention technique
Neurointerventionist goes through leg blood vessel and by special devices can
take out the clot to open up the blood vessel
By modern treatment methods may patients recover completely after stroke
CLOT REMOVAL BY
NEUROINTERVENTION

7. C D
C & D – 3D reconstructed images shows
complete occlusion of the ICA aneurysms with
minimal opacification of ACA.
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