Stroke: Act quickly for the brain

November 10, 2024

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World Stroke Day, October 29, is an opportunity for specialists to emphasize the need to raise awareness of early warning signs. This is to avoid delayed treatment and serious after-effects. Treatments exist, and they are all the more beneficial when administered early.

In hospital emergency rooms, only imaging currently allows us to distinguish the type of stroke (hemorrhagic or ischemic) and to direct the patient accordingly to the appropriate treatment.

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This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir ndeg933, dated November 2024.

Three letters (AVC) to evoke cerebrovascular accident, a public health scourge that occurs in France every four minutes, or 150,000 times a year, causing 30,000 deaths. Globally, the figures are overwhelming: 16 million new cases each year, more than 5 million deaths. Moreover, while 60% of patients regain their autonomy, 40% suffer major after-effects (hemiplegia, hemiparesis, aphasia) that affect their daily lives. Not to mention the so-called invisible disability, which affects behavior, cognition, and mood.

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