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Stroke treatment vacuums clots from brain



The article was about a new treatment for strokes, it's called Penumbra, and what it does is sucks up the clot bit by bit to restore blood flow, the downfall to this device though it when the clot is being broken and the blood rushes into the oxygen deprived brain tissue, sometimes it can trigger swelling or a brain hemorrhage, both can kill you. A lot of strokes occur when blood vessels leading to the brain get blocked off and then that result into brain cells starving and dying. Currently they have a drug called TPA but it is only effective within three hours of receiving the stroke symptoms

This is important because they discovered a new way to treat strokes and this could save many lives. Also now that they have identified a way to treat strokes they can perfect it more and explore and build on this idea and find more ways to treat strokes that suit other cases.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22883894/