Inside job dissolves blood clot pronto
By Nathan Seppa
From San Francisco, at the International Stroke Conference
An experimental procedure that delivers a clot-busting drug directly to the brain can bring on a remarkable turnaround in some stroke patients, researchers find.
“Some people improve even while they’re on the [operating] table as we dissolve the clot,” says radiologist Gregory Christoforidis of the Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus. For example, a patient might regain control over a side of his or her body that had been affected by the stroke and begin moving an arm or leg, he says.