The symptoms of stroke can appear to any person in Guntur at any time. It is a medical emergency that requires immediate attention from the best neurosurgeon in Guntur.
It is nothing but the shortage of oxygen and required nutrition due to disturbed blood supply into your brain. As a result, your brain cells start to die within minutes.
You can prevent brain injury and other problems if you avail of proper treatment as early as possible.
Sometimes your blood vessels rupture and lead to bleeding in the brain, both constitute towards the stroke. Almost 87% of strokes are due to lack of blood supply and 13% are due to haemorrhage i.e bleeding in the brain.
What are the signs and symptoms?
When you think you or someone you are with is having a stroke, pay careful attention to when the signs begin. Just remember the Mnemonic BE FAST, which indicates the symptoms to look for and the need of emergency treatment. Certain treatment choices are highly successful if offered right after the stroke.
The below are signs and symptoms of a stroke:
You can experience difficulties speaking and understand what people are doing. You can be confused, slur your sentences, or have trouble interpreting speech.
You may experience numbness or paralysis of the face, arm, or leg. It usually impacts only one side of the body. You can have a stroke if one limb starts to collapse. When you try to smile, one side of your mouth will droop.
You may experience double vision or have distorted or blackened vision in one or both eyes. An extreme headache followed by vomiting, dizziness, or disturbed consciousness may be a symptom of a stroke.
You can experience difficulty in walking due to a stroke. You can feel dizziness or a lack of balance as well.
Now let us see how our neurologist in Guntur performs the diagnosis?
When you arrive at the hospital, we will perform the following tests:
A physical test: Your doctor will administer a series of checks that you are already acquainted with, such as listening to your pulse and checking your blood pressure. We may perform a neurological evaluation to assess the effects of the stroke.
Blood test: Several blood checks can be done, including one to assess how easily your blood clots, whether your blood pressure is too high or low, and whether or not you have an infection.
CT scan: A CT scan can also be beneficial in your stroke diagnosis. It produces a clear representation of the brain by using a sequence of X-rays. A CT scan may exclude brain bleeding so we can go ahead with thrombolysis treatment without any delay.
Our neurosurgeon in Guntur Dr. Mohana can inject a dye into your bloodstream to allow them to examine the blood vessels present in your neck and brain more closely (computerized tomography angiography).
You may require Magnetic resonance imaging: An MRI creates a precise image of the brain using strong radio waves and magnets. An MRI can detect brain tissue injury and brain haemorrhages caused by an ischemic stroke.
So, what are the treatment options available for you?
If you are having an ischemic stroke or a stroke that causes bleeding through the brain, you will need emergency care. Doctors must rapidly restore blood supply to the brain to cure an ischemic stroke. Our neurosurgeon in Guntur provides the following treatments in case you are suffering from an ischemic stroke.
Ischemic stroke
IV treatment: In many cases, we can administer intravenous medications that may break up a blood clot in your brain. We administer these medications within 4.5 hours from when the symptoms started and recently up to 9 hours based on the perfusion scanning.
Medications: It is another very important way of treating stroke. Here our doctor administers medications directly to the site of the stroke. We use a long, narrow tube through an artery in your groin and thread it to your brain that is called IA thrombolysis, which may need in some small vessel disease cases.
Endovascular surgeries: Ischemic strokes are often treated immediately inside the blocked blood artery by our Dr. Mohana Rao Patibandla, the interventional neurosurgeon or endovascular neurosurgeon with the help of suction device or with the help stentreiver, if patient is here with in 24 hours.
After an ischemic stroke, endovascular treatment can increase the outcomes and minimize long-term disability in up to 70% of patients after proper selection through perfusion imaging. Our interventional team Dr. Mohana Rao Patibandla is the best in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh and India.
A stent retriever: As one of the best neurosurgeons in Guntur, our doctor will clear the clot from the damaged blood artery in your brain using a system connected to a catheter. This method is beneficial for people who have big clots that medicines cannot remove entirely.
Controlling the bleeding and reducing the pain in your brain caused by the extra blood are the main goals of emergency care for haemorrhagic stroke. There are multiple recovery services available, including:
Treatment in an emergency: When you use blood thinners to avoid blood clots, we might provide medications or blood transfusions to mitigate the blood thinners’ effects. We can give prescription medications to reduce intracranial pain, blood pressure, blood vessel spasm reduction, and seizure prevention.
Surgical procedures: Our doctor can perform surgery to remove the blood and relieve pressure on your brain if the bleeding is high.
Clipping by a surgeon: To stop the aneurysm’s blood supply, the best neurosurgeon in Guntur can put a tiny clip at its root. This clip will prevent an aneurysm from bursting or from bleeding again after it has already bled.
Coiling (endovascular embolization): Your surgeon can put tiny detachable coils into the aneurysm. He can use a catheter implanted into an artery in your groin and directed to your brain. It helps in blocking the blood supply into the aneurysm and causes clots.