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Reviewed By: Andrew Seibert,
SOURCES: 2010 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. David Newell, MD, Neurosurgeon, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
Ray Blackwell had just finished his shift as a K9 police officer when he got a whopper of a headache. He knew he needed to get home.
I kept calling my fiancee, Michelle, and I was talking to her, trying to talk to her, but she did not understand what I was saying.
Ray made it home, but woke up in the hospital.
I was just happy that I was alive.
At just 38, Ray had suffered a stroke from an intra-cerebral hemorrhage. A blood vessel had burst in his brain and formed a clot.
It's been described as looking like red currant jelly. It's a semi-solid material that forms and can cause pressure on the brain.
To break up the clot, Doctor David Newell used a new minimally invasive procedure that uses ultrasound energy. Surgeons drill a small hole in the patient's skull and use a catheter, guided by GPS technology, to deliver ultrasound to the site of the clot. Over the next 24 hours, ultrasound waves help drugs dissolve the clot, while blood is drained out.
The magic of this new device is that it can be introduced into the hemorrhage with very, very minimal trauma.
Ray says he can run and walk, but still has some difficulty with speech. Despite it all, he hopes to be back at work and marry Michelle soon. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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