The Stroke Blog

24/07/2022

"Carotid And Vertebral Artery Dissection: A Guide For Survivors And Their Loved Ones" is debuting today in SPANISH! Ever since we published the book we have received feedback asking for a Spanish language translation. Today, it has arrived!! Here's to hoping it will provide sought-after answers to many more young stroke survivors.

Disección de la arteria carótida y vertebral: Una guía para pacientes y sus seres queridos (Spanish Edition)

19/09/2021

What do most moms of teething 13 month old toddlers ponder at 3AM while getting them back to sleep? This morning, it was cerebellar stroke, and the fragility of life.

I awoke to the sound of my 13 month old son on the baby monitor at 3:01AM today. His nickname is Baby Shark, and therefor the baby monitor is known as the “Shark Cam” in our house. And as happens with sharks, he seems to be getting a lot of new teeth these days. I don’t remember my own teethin...

20/07/2021

The Stroke Blog is back. And what better way to get things rolling again than by jumping into the topic of Covid-19 vaccination???

Recently, it hit me. I’m a doctor. And I’m “on the internet.” But I don’t have YouTube channel. Well, I technically do, but the only videos I have posted are of my cat, and of my daughter doing an excellent cover of Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” when she was three years old. But back to...

31/12/2020

I sincerely, truly, passionately love treating patients with strokes. Today I witnessed an amazing emergency department team rapidly deliver needed stroke care to someone who never dreamed this was how 2020 would end, and because of this work there is hope. It has been a dark year in so many ways. And yet there is still so much that is right. Happy New Year's Eve - bring on 2021.

17/06/2020

Since stroke has emerged as a complication of Covid-19, I am trying to post stroke-relevant information to The Stroke Blog to keep everyone updated. With so much confusion about whether Covid-19 cases are rising or declining and inconsistent reporting of numbers, it makes the situation more challenging. This is perhaps the best article I have seen in the mainstream media about Covid-19 and why it is not going away.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/876224115/coronavirus-second-wave-nope-were-still-stuck-in-the-first-one

16/06/2020

Today's post on The Stroke Blog discusses the first published randomized clinical trial comparing two therapies for patients with blood clots in the veins that drain blood from the brain (known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, or CVST). Check it out!

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 oxygen-rich blood *to* the brain to nurture its cells. These blockages can occur from the formation of b...

22/05/2020

Today's brief blog post translates a new medical journal article that adds to the growing evidence that Covid-19 is a disease in which blood clots play a prominent role:

A paper appeared yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, adding to the growing body of evidence that clotting is a prominent feature in Covid-19, even if it isn’t always evident. People who develop difficulty breathing with influenza (“the flu”) or more run-of-the-mill pneumonias may...

11/05/2020

Stroke is emerging as a complication of Covid-19. Today's post addresses this.

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 positive for Covid-19 brought media attention to this particular facet of a disease physicians, he...

15/04/2020

A post today on The Stroke Blog reflects on the fears experienced by young stroke survivors and the fear gripping many during the Covid-19 pandemic, with an uplifting message.

https://strokeblog.net/2020/04/fear-accompanies-loss-of-control-in-covid-19-and-in-stroke/

29/11/2019

Are you interested in sharing your story as a guest blogger on The Stroke Blog in the new year? If so, please email a brief description of what you would like the world to know about stroke and why you feel compelled to speak out to strokeblogguest@gmail.com . How better to spread stroke awareness than with the words of those who have been impacted by it?

02/11/2019

Today's post on The Stroke Blog is baseball themed, following an exciting World Series match-up.

I was born in Houston, Texas, and have fond memories of going to the Astrodome in the 1980s with my grandfather to watch the Astros play baseball. They knew that orange was the new black way before Netflix existed, as did their fans. This year, needless to say, I excitedly cheered them on this year....

12/05/2019

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the fantastic moms out there!