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Presidential spokesman suffers minor stroke
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Medicexchange, UK - Jun 19, 2008
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Radio New Zealand, New Zealand - Jun 12, 2008
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... family history of strokes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, an inactive lifestyle, heart disease and minor strokes.

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[BOOK] The Harmless People
EM Thomas - 1965 - Vintage

A harmless suggestion -
R Smith - Angelaki, 2003 - informaworld.com
... it takes its support, confers at a stroke a philosophic ... but consciousness in this
sense was hardly his principal ... break punctuates Ich like a minor death, an ...

… (ASL-CBF) Response in Patients with Transient Visual Impairment after Posterior Circulation Stroke*
R Wiest, WJ Z'Graggen, AM Humm, H Horn, C Kiefer, … - Clinical Neuroradiology, 2006 - Springer
... measure early poststroke vascular changes, which are hardly detectable with ... be
hypothesized that subtle changes in minor ischemic stroke are obscured ...

[CITATION] … , and Legislative Reform: An Examination of the New Uniform Probate Code Harmless Error Rule and the …
CD Miller - Fla. L. Rev., 1991 - HeinOnline

The Epigraphy of Asia Minor
AG Woodhead - The Classical Review, 1958 - JSTOR
... The epigraphy of Asia Minor notably lacks an ordered ... It is hardly profitable now
to question the ... texts are throughout printed continuously with strokes to mark ...

Incidence and Prognosis of Transient Neurological Attacks -
MJ Bos, MJE van Rijn, J Witteman, A Hofman, PJ … - JAMA, 2007 - Am Med Assoc
... Conversely, hardly anything is known about the prognostic significance of TNAs with ...
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[BOOK] Stroke: The Facts
FC Rose, R Capildeo - 1982 - Oxford University Press, USA

3. Ethics, Outcome Variables and Clinical Scales: The Clinician's Point of View
E Buskens, J van Gijn - Clinical Trials in Neurology, 2001 - books.google.com
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The Spiritual Claim of a Dying Mother?A Complement to Paul??s Report -
C Delkeskamp-Hayes - Christian Bioethics, 2003 - informaworld.com
... Several minor strokes put her out of touch for a day or two. ... Compared with that
experience, my mother?s aggressions were harmless. ... I could hardly believe it. ...

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Minor strokes hardly harmless

HOUSTON -- (May 1, 2007) -- No one is at zero risk for stroke, which explains why it is vital to know the signs and understand how to decrease the chance of experiencing a stroke.

Current therapies are powerful and effective, but can be applied only in the first few hours, said Dr. Dennis Landis, chair of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Good cardiovascular health habits greatly reduce the risk of stroke. Hypertension and diabetes must be recognized and treated. Smoking, obesity and lack of exercise all increase the risk of stroke, but that risk is reduced when a person modifies those habits.

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A stroke is caused by loss of blood supply to a portion of the brain which results in loss of brain function. For example, loss of blood supply to the portion of the brain controlling movement may result in paralysis of the arm and leg. Landis stresses the importance of acting on the following warning signs and seeking emergency care immediately:

  • Sudden numbness or weakness affecting the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
  • Sudden difficulty in speaking or understanding speech
  • Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
  • Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination

At a certified stroke center, a Brain Attack team of specially trained physicians and nurses can rapidly determine whether a stroke is in progress, and whether to treat it with clot-busting medications. A stroke can be stopped in its tracks in the first few hours with clot-busting medications.

Nearly half of strokes are preceded by transient symptoms or signs. These are warnings of disaster. Even though a person may seem to recover in minutes, they should go directly to an emergency facility for diagnosis and help.

Some ischemic strokes may seem to cause only minimal damage, but they are still important.

"If you have a block in a small blood vessel irrigating a portion of the white matter in the frontal lobe, the symptoms may be subtle. Don't ignore the minor problem," said Landis. "Diseases like diabetes and hypertension are also causing damage in similar vessels elsewhere. A block in an equally small blood vessel that serves the portion of the brain responsible for motor activity can cause a person to be paralyzed."

Stroke victims can recover partial or complete loss of motor or speech function because of other areas of the brain that take over, but dead brain cells cannot be resurrected. The promise of stem cell therapy to re-grow brain tissue lost from stroke is distant at present, said Landis, although there have been several recent advances in post-stroke therapy.

If a person is forced to use the weak limb in the early days after stroke by restraining the normal limb, the chances of recovering function are increased. Direct electrical stimulation of muscles in paralyzed limbs can be used to elicit nearly normal movement, and may bolster the recovery of normal control.

"We're getting better and better with preventive and treatment techniques," said Landis. "Even more exciting is that there are now many therapies that can greatly reduce the risk of stroke."

 
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