#61: Stroke-Struck, Installment #7 [26:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (592)

Medical and surgical advances for neurovascular disorders. This is the last of our three-part series of shows covering AHA’s International Stroke Meeting.

Publication Date: Mar 16th, 2007.

1. TPA is used in pediatric stroke despite lack of guidelines: Children have started the ‘clot-buster’ therapy at time intervals ranging from 20 minutes 52 hours.
2. Anticlotting drug use in children varies widely after stroke: What percent of children who”ve had arterial ischemic strokes do you think receive no anticoagulation therapy after the stroke? Listen and learn.
3. One in four acute ischemic stroke patients rapidly respond to intra-arterial treatment: The investigators referred to the rapid recovery from intra-arterial infusion of thrombolytic as the “Lazarus phenomenon.”
4. And last but not least: Contraceptive peace of mind now in convenient chewable form!

Links: http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/36/9/1825 According to the Stroke report, the annual incidence of pediatric stroke is 4.3 per 100,000, and the majority of the stroke cases were hemorrhagic. The researchers projected that future studies of pediatric stroke would have to draw from a patient population of up to essentially 60 million children to complete a case-control study within 4 years.