Mistakes young stroke patients make
I will keep today’s post brief, but wanted to relay mistakes that young stroke patients frequently make in hopes that they will not perpetuate. Yesterday I saw a young stroke patient who decided to...
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Demystifying the Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
It occurs at least every other week in my own clinical experience. A patient has experienced an ischemic stroke, and after a workup that fails to show significant atherosclerosis (“hardening of the...
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Cerebellar stroke – it’s about more than coordination and balance
The traditional teaching about the role of the cerebellum has typically been that it coordinates movements and “fine tunes” them. It provides balance when walking, and stability of a hand when reaching...
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Clinical trial shows no difference in stroke prevention between antiplatelet...
Due to the number of readers of The Stroke Blog who have identified themselves as having experienced carotid or vertebral artery dissections with or without stroke, I believe a clinical trial from the...
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#Redshoes4youngstroke: A Call to Action!
One of the central missions of The Stroke Blog since it went live in October 2014 has been to provide information to those who have survived a stroke or strokes that occurred at relatively young ages....
View ArticleAllison Pataki shares young caregiver’s viewpoint after husband’s stroke at 30
Today, Allison Pataki published a moving New York Times blog post about her husband’s stroke at age 30. Pregnant with their first child at the time of the event, she describes continuing to work...
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When A Baby Has A Stroke: A Personal Story From the Executive Director of...
“Your baby has a brain abnormality.” Those were the chilling words my husband and I heard when I was 29 weeks pregnant with our third child. We were told by the perinatologist that our unborn baby’s...
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New book for patients with carotid and vertebral artery dissection is now...
One of the most meaningful parts of my neurology residency training was learning how to treat patients with carotid and vertebral artery dissections. Not only was I fascinated with the concept that a...
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The Diagnosis I Never Expected: A Young Stroke Survivor’s Story
August 5, 2017 was a typical night for my girlfriend and me: quiet dinner, just the two of us, followed by dessert at Amelie’s, a popular bakery in Charlotte, North Carolina. After arriving home,...
View ArticleReflecting On Stroke Anniversaries
Usually I associate the familiar phrase “The days are long, but the years are short” with the raising of children. It’s astonishing how exhausting days are with the sleep-deprivation that accompanies...
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Fear accompanies loss of control, in Covid-19 and in stroke
In 2012, I walked through a cemetery in Cashion, Oklahoma, eager to find the final resting places of my grandmother’s seven siblings and many other long since departed ancestors and relatives. My...
View ArticleStroke emerging as complication of Covid-19
On April 28, 2020, a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine describing blood clots in large arteries supplying the brain (known as “large-vessel strokes”) in young patients testing...
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Finally! A randomized clinical trial evaluating treatments for cerebral...
When the topic of stroke is being discussed, for the most part it is the concept of “blockages” developing within in the arteries of the brain – that is, the blood vessels that are carrying...
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