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To Save the Stricken Brain.
Byline: Andrew Murr
Just two weeks after giving birth to a daughter last November, Michelle Larwood suffered a major stroke. One moment, the Los Angeles woman, 38, sat calmly in a doctor's waiting room. The next, she recalls, "I couldn't speak, and I couldn't move my right side." Neurologists at UCLA's Stroke Center soon found the cause: a clot blocked the middle cerebral artery feeding the left side of her brain. Watching the blocked vessel on a monitor, an interventional radiologist snaked a tiny catheter tube through a leg artery and into her brain, penetrating the clot. Once he got it past the blockage, the doctor unfurled a tiny corkscrew and gently pulled, much like a sommelier easing a cork from a bottle of vintage merlot. It …
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Source: HighBeam Research, To Save the Stricken Brain.
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