Word: furlan
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...clinical trial of 180 patients presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association last Thursday, researchers reported that 40% of patients who received the drug within six hours of the start of their stroke made a dramatic recovery, in contrast to 25% in the control group. Dr. Anthony Furlan, a stroke specialist at the Cleveland Clinic who led the study, says the recovered patients "could return to work, take care of their finances, drive...
...which they thread through the arteries of the brain to deliver treatment directly to the site of the clot. So far, the therapy has been tested only on clots in the middle cerebral artery, which is the site of perhaps a third of clot-caused strokes. It's conceivable, Furlan says, that as many as half of such strokes can be treated in this...
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