Wonder Goose 2020

02/27/2022

Thank you so much Dr. Pereria and Dr. Spears.
The Robotic system will save so many lives in the future!!

02/09/2022

Oh no!

Research Highlights: One in three stroke survivors in the U.S. experiences food insecurity, which is when a person is struggling to get enough food or has to make tough choices between food and other basic needs. The rate of food insecurity among...

08/22/2021

Found a nice poster from an excellent article by Dr. Bertrand , "Acute forearm muscle swelling post transradial catheterization and compartment syndrome: prevention is better than treatment!".

Reference:
1. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2010 Feb 15;75(3):366-8.

07/30/2021

Wow the future is really BRIGHT!
Dr. Puri showed us a very small device (high frequency- optical coherence tomography, HF-OCT) that we can put inside the brain artery and take a picture of the lumen and the wall of the artery. This is very cool because it will help doctors understand the artery pathology and also increase the safety of the procedure. For example, when a doctor places the stent inside the artery, he can use HF-OCT to check whether the stent is apposed to the wall or whether there is a blood clot forming inside the stent. Hope we can get to use this device in near future. Thanks for SNIS for the wonderful meeting.
2021.

Reference:
1. Ughi GJ, Marosfoi MG, King RM, et al. A neurovascular high-frequency optical coherence tomography system enables in situ cerebrovascular volumetric microscopy. Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 31;11(1):3851

06/09/2021

Let us introduce you to Recovery Goose!!

Recovery goose had a stroke a couple of years ago. Luckily, it was a minor one. He was a workaholic and didn’t have time to take care of himself. Having a stroke was a wake-up call. He has turned his life around 180 degrees since then. He lives healthier, has changed his diet to a plant-based diet, exercises regularly, and gets adequate sleep each night. He recently just finished a Team Goose Marathon. He would like to encourage all stroke patients to take it one day at a time. Our brain can change and adapt (neuroplasticity) after a stroke if we keep showing up for the rehabilitation program. This is very important because daily repetition is the key to re-training the brain!

05/21/2021

Two days ago we had a stroke patient presented with total paralysis of his right side. The sad story was he didn't get to the hospital when he first noticed the symptoms. He went to bed and woke up with a big stroke :( It was too late to give him clot busting medicine (tPA).

Remember TIME IS BRAIN! , BEFAST for STROKE, call 911!!!

#911

05/09/2021

215 possible cases of cerebral venous thrombosis have been reported to the European Medicines Agency among 99 millions recipients of vaccines.
169 cases were recipients of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca) vaccine.

Reference:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2106315

Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford–AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

04/29/2021

Experts have a simple answer for heart and stroke patients questioning whether they need a COVID-19 vaccination. That answer: yes.

04/25/2021

We would like to introduce you to our beautiful goose....HOPE GOOSE!!

Hope Goose is our team goose cheerleader! She is always happy and very optimistic. She would like our stroke patients to have “Hope” and “ Never give up”. She understands it is not easy having a stroke, but she believes her patients are capable of overcoming many difficulties and will get better! She often reminds us that our work also has given hope back for many stroke patients and their families. She also told us that we need to keep our hopes high and be positive for a bright future!

04/23/2021

We have been consulted for middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization for patients with chronic subdural hematoma. We reviewed MMA anatomy and put together a short powerpoint presentation. We would like to share it with you :) THANK YOU!
https://www.teamgoose.org/middle-meningeal-artery
hematoma

03/27/2021

We would like to share with you about venous sinus stenting for patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension please. When do we consider it ?

Hope you learn something, we did learn a lot :)

Most patients (75%) with IIH respond to medical treatment. In refractory patients, there are 3 available options including CSF diversion (ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) or lumboperitoneal shunt (LPS), optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF) and VSS. As of now, we do not know which option is the bes...

02/18/2021

We have 2 patients with pulsatile tinnitus from Sigmoid Sinus Wall Anomalies (SSWA). We would like to share with you what we have learned. Thank you!
https://www.teamgoose.org/sswa

Sigmoid Sinus Wall Anomalies (SSWA) - The sigmoid sinus is a blood-carrying channel on the side of the brain that receives blood from veins within the brain. SSWA refers to sinus wall abnormalities that cause pressure, blood flow and noise changes within the sigmoid sinus, causing PST. They include:...