Our Kris Lindgren, who is writing for the University of California-Irvine, had an article picked up by the Physorg website on a young man who suffered an unusual malady. From her piece:
Darrin’s sudden inability to move his left side, coupled with severe pain on the right side of his head and difficulty speaking, suggested – however improbably in a 15½-year-old – a stroke from a blocked artery or bleeding in the brain. Rather than go to a closer community hospital, the EMTs sped to the nearest nationally certified primary stroke facility, UC Irvine Medical Center, in Orange.
Alerted by paramedics in transit, the medical center’s acute stroke team was ready for Darrin. After a rapid examination, he underwent advanced brain and arterial imaging.
“Right away, we could see a clot lodged in his right middle cerebral artery,” says neurologist Dr. Vivek Jain, director of UC Irvine’s highly ranked Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center. “If left untreated, a blockage in that location will usually cause devastating brain injury.”
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