ABILENE, Texas -
Hendrick Medical Center is offering a new stroke treatment therapy program that will allow patients to have faster and potentially better outcomes if suffering from a stroke.
The new therapy allows Hendrick to treat stroke patients with large vessel strokes. Before this, a patient would have to be treated in big city hospitals for this particular type of stroke.
"Currently this is the only facility in the Big Country that offers the type of stroke therapy, said Dr. Christopher Eddleman, a neurosurgeon at Hendrick Medical Center. It is a type of endovascular treatment.
Endovascular treatment is the most effective way to treat stroke, Eddleman said. Actually pulling out the large clot can often form inside the blood vessel, so this is just a technique that Ive been doing for several years.
What is the biggest advantage to this new treatment?
The big thing with these types of strokes is that there is a limited time during which one could be treated, Eddleman said. If someone comes in and they are close to the end of their time, having this technique available will obviously help them.
Hendrick Medical Center became an accredited Primary Stroke Center in 2012.
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Hendrick Medical Center offering cutting-edge treatment for stroke patients