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Stopping A Stroke Fast

1,749 views · Published 10 March 2016 · 1:27 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Lee Health · 2016 · Science & Technology

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It’s being called a significant advancement in the diagnosis and treatment of strokes: it’s a state-of-the-art system that allows physicians to find and treat a stroke – faster and more accurately. 

“We do three-dimensional rotational angiography, which allows us to take a rotational sweep of the brain and reconstruct all these blood vessels three-dimensionally,” says Dr. Nasser Razack, a Lee Memorial Health System neurointerventional radiologist.

With a stroke, the quicker blood flow is restored, the more brain is saved. The bi-plane system produces highly detailed three-dimensional views of blood vessels leading to the brain and deep within the brain. 

“Not a lot of hospitals have the ability to do that, and less hospitals have the ability to do the next step. Take out that occlusion with catheter-based technology,” says Dr. Razack.

Much faster than clot-busting drugs, which take on average an hour and a half to open a blockage, advanced techniques and equipment allow doctors to literally pull out clot using a stent fixed to a spaghetti-thin wire, inserted via catheter through an artery.

“If we have a clot, we put the stentriever over and through the clot; it disperses the clot and kind of latches onto it too. So when you pull that stentriever out of that blood vessel, it pulls the clot out with it,” says Dr. Razack.

Physicians are able to pull out the clots within about 5-minutes: good news for stroke patients, when every second counts.


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