Tossing a Lifeline to a Dying Brain; a Revolutionary Treatment Saves a West Allis Man From a Stroke That Could Have Badly Disabled Him or Worse.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › October 16, 2005
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Ron Juechter lay on the hospital table awake and unsedated, with a tiny corkscrew pushed up into his brain.
As a biological Drano roiled in his clogged artery, the doctors treating his stroke raced against the clock.See the full content of this document
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Tossing a Lifeline to a Dying Brain; a Revolutionary Treatment Saves a West Allis Man From a Stroke That Could Have Badly Disabled Him or Worse.
Within minutes they would have to withdraw the device and cease dispensing the clot-dissolving drug for fear that it would cause a serious, even fatal, hemorrhage in his brain.
It was 7:59 on a Friday night at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital as doctors looked at one more X-ray of the clot that was lodged like a dam in a river in Juechter's middle cerebral artery.Despite more than two hours of work with the device, which had been threaded up through an artery in his groin, a large ...See the full content of this document
