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Just a week before he was lifting weights, 78-year-old Robert Skibo's left side was completely paralyzed. He was shopping at Walgreens when he suddenly fell.
"I said, 'I'm having a freakin' stroke,'" Skibo says.
Skibo was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center's Stroke Center.
"When the blood stops going to part of the brain, the brain starts to die," says Dr. Jeffrey Farkas, director of interventional neuroradiology at Lutheran Medical Center. "The faster you can restore blood flow, the better the outcome."
In Skibo's case, and five other patients at Lutheran, the massive clot was removed in a matter of minutes.
A three dimension x-ray gives surgeons a road map, sort of like a GPS, to the clot that is causing the stroke.
"We clean off the area around the leg, and then we put a small needle into the artery," Farkas said.
They then weave the flexible 5-Max Ace Reperfusion catheter up to the clot location in the brain.
The tool is also wide enough to place a tube inside.
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Brooklyn Hospital Using Groundbreaking Procedure On Stroke Patients