Word: stroke
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...missed diagnosis understandably raised concerns about how doctors go about detecting and treating a stroke. Even for specialists this can be a tricky business, as there are two major groups of strokes and each requires different tests and treatments. In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts and causes bleeding in the brain, which can be detected immediately by a C.T. or MRI scan. In the other, major family of strokes, ischemic, a clot obstructs the flow of blood, starving and killing brain tissue beyond the blockage. This kind of stroke, which Ford suffered in the balance center...
...patient fares after a stroke depends on several factors, including how much of the brain has been affected; how soon and what sort of treatment is started (clot busters like TPA, or tissue plasminogen activator, should be administered within three hours for ischemic strokes but not for hemorrhagic strokes, lest they cause even more bleeding); how severe the symptoms are (paralysis is worse than simple weakness); and the patient's general health before the brain injury...
...doctors are optimistic about their octogenarian patient, who has been an active golfer and public speaker, they haven't escaped criticism for their missed first diagnosis. But casting blame won't do anyone much good. What the former President's experience should teach us is the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms and getting help fast...
...rewarded when Smith edged Aquil Abdullah in the 2,000-m trials by a scant third of a second, or about 18 in. over the 1 1/4 miles of the course. It was the closest finish in trials history. Smith has spent the intervening weeks smoothing out his stroke in two-a-day training sessions on Lake Carnegie near Princeton, N.J., and nursing nagging injuries (back, ribs, thigh) accrued in a decade and a half of competitive rowing...
RECOVERING. FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, 87, from at least one mild stroke following an upbeat appearance at the Republican National Convention; in Philadelphia. Doctors also drained an abscess in Ford's swollen tongue, caused by a rare bacterial infection...