Posted on 08/07/2023 8:20:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting noted that mechanical thrombectomy, a standard treatment for adults with a large vessel occlusion, a type of severe ischemic stroke, is also safe and effective for treating children.
A large vessel occlusion is caused by a blood clot that blocks a large vessel, cutting off significant blood flow to the brain. The faster that patients with this kind of stroke receive mechanical thrombectomy, a minimally invasive procedure that uses a catheter to reopen blocked arteries in the brain, the better their chances of functional independence after recovery.
The authors reviewed eight studies involving 192 children who received thrombectomy for stroke. They compared these children's post-thrombectomy improvements with those of adults with the same procedure.
Children experienced better outcomes than adults in many of the study's measures, including higher rates of good neurological outcomes after surgery (76.1% for children vs. 46% for adults), better rates of restored blood flow (88.5% vs. 72.3%), fewer major surgery complications (4.7% vs. 30.4%), and lower mortality rates (1% vs. 12.9%).
"Seeing that our best standard treatment for adults with severe stroke is also extremely effective for children is encouraging," said Matt Findlay. "It's very meaningful to know that we can safely use this time-tested, minimally invasive procedure to get children back to their families, recovering quickly, and thriving."
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It’s beautiful.
>>large vessel occlusion, a type of severe ischemic stroke, is also safe and effective for treating children.
Children didn’t seem prone to occlusive strokes before the clot shot.
I’ve been researching this for the past week for a person that I have a medical power of attorney due to an ischemic cryptogenic stroke.
We subsequently determined that a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) exists.
PFOs, can only occur after birth when the foramen ovale fails to close. The foramen ovale is a hole in the wall between the left and right atria of every human fetus.
This hole allows blood to bypass the fetal lungs, which cannot work until they are exposed to air. When a newborn enters the world and takes its first breath, the foramen ovale closes, and within a few months it has sealed completely in about 75 percent of us.
When it remains open, it is called a patent foramen ovale, patent meaning open. For the vast majority of the millions of people with a PFO, it is not a problem, even though blood is leaking from the right atrium to the left.
About 25% of people have a PFO and don’t know it.
Problems can arise when that blood contains a blood clot and it passes throgh the hole and creates a stroke in the brain. For people without a PFO these tiny blood clots (individually called a venous thrombus) get filtered by the tiny capillaries in the lungs, after which the freshly oxygenated blood enters the left atrium, then the left ventricle.
What astonishes me are the psychological attributes that correlate to people having a PFO. There are several studies which identify the attributes including anxiety, psychotic episodes, .....
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7330417/
I’ve been researching this.
Investigation led me to look at the function of the Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors in the heart, as the spiked proteins influence them.
The ACE2 expression in human heart indicates new potential mechanism of heart injury among patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32227090/
” ... meaning that if infected by the virus these patients may have higher risk of heart attack and critically ill condition. The finding of this study explains the high rate of severe cases among COVID-19 patients with basic cardiovascular disease; and these results also perhaps provide important reference to clinical treatment of cardiac injury among severe patients infected by SARS-CoV-2.”
About 25% of the population has a hole in the septom between the left and right atrium of their hearts.
Ordinarily, blood clots caused by Covid-19 are filtered out by the lungs. In people with a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO), these blood clots pass through the hole between the atriums and bypass the puliminary capillaries, flowing directly into the carotid artery into the brain thus causing strokes.
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