World Stroke Day 2008 and More

I found out that world stroke day is on Oct. 29 and the theme is "Little Strokes, Big Trouble" and the 6th World Congress of Stroke was held in Vienna on September 24 to 27, 2008.
Here is the Website:

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/39/9/2407

In class the other day someone asked about ischemic vs. hemorrhagic stroke and their occurrence, the American Stroke Association says that ischemic accounts for 83% of all strokes and hemorrhagic the other 17%.

Also we discussed possible treatments for hemorrhagic strokes and i looked on the Mayo Clinic Website and found out that the treatment depends on the cause and severity of the hemorrage. Medication treatments can range from blood pressure lowering meds to coagulants to just pain releivers to releive the symptoms. Also they talk about medications to prevent possible seizures. They also discuss different surgeries to treat the different types of hemorrhagic strokes such as for aneurysm, arteriovenous malformations, and general. These range from clamping the vessel to removal of hematoma to catheters through the vessel. One of the treatments for AVM really was interesting it was called coil embolization and invloved inserting a catheter through the leg and threading through the body to the brain. Then it coils around the affected AVM and a glue is injected to block the vessel. I found this article very helpful:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/stroke/hemorrhagic-stroke.html

Still while looking for treatments for hemorrhaic stroke i didn't find much on how to immediatily reduce damage except by having the person be monitored for damage just from the symptoms or having them lie down to reduce blood flow to the area. I would really like to know if anyone found anything else or it that all one can do?

We also discussed fucoidin and i found this post from last semester on it posted by dan k that i though was interesting thanks dan k. He talks about where fucoidin is found and a study that was done by Japanese scientists that showed it caused apoptosis is lymphoma cells.

http://inflammablog.blogspot.com/search?q=fucoidin