Word: stroke
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...fact, the issue is the future of the Philippines. With one stroke, Marcos had plunged his 7,000-island archipelago and its 54 million people into a new period of political uncertainty. Did his announcement herald a long-awaited democratic solution for a country that is simultaneously being choked by Marcos' brand of authoritarianism and threatened by a growing Communist insurgency? Or was it just a ploy to fend off the anti-Marcos criticism that has reached a new crescendo in the streets of Manila and the corridors of Washington...
When it was first attempted nearly 20 years ago, the operation was hailed as a marvel of technical virtuosity and medical logic. Cerebral bypass surgery was designed to circumvent one of the most common causes of strokes: a blockage in one of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. To reroute blood around a blocked vessel, the surgeon uses a nearby, less vital artery to build a bypass road. Taking this detour, blood continues to flow to the brain, and the risk of a stroke's occurring is presumably lessened...
That was the conclusion of an eight-year, $9 million study reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various...
...patients were given careful medical attention, including drugs to reduce the risk of blood clots and control high blood pressure, which is frequently a contributing factor in stroke. Roughly half the participants were randomly assigned to undergo bypass surgery to connect the superficial temporal artery, which nourishes the scalp, to an artery on the surface of the brain. (The scalp has an ample supply of blood from other vessels.) The central question posed by the investigators: Would the surgery reduce the incidence of future strokes and stroke-related deaths? Their conclusion: "The answer is no." In fact, the operation...
...went in pretty pumped,” stroke Moritz Hafner said. “We were really pumped because we had a bad race last Sunday and we were going to make up for that...