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What Does The MRI Brain Show?
yes doctor. thanks.my sister is having paralysis on right side. she can't speak.according to her reports, she is having large acute nonhaemorrhagic infarcts noted in left basal ganglion, left frontoparietal periventricular white matter with compression on the left lateral ventricle but no middle shift.patchy acute non haemorrhagic infarcts noted in left frontotemporo occipital cortcal infarcts.according to mra study of brain, left mca is thin with poor flow signals in it.. according mr angiography of neck, both vertebrals arteries are thin and hypoplastic. plz doctor tell her actual situation in comprehensive language and possible treatment.
Mon, 30 Jun 2014
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted the details of your sister.
She has a large brain stroke on the left side of brain, resulting in paralysis of right side of body (arm and leg) and loss of speech. Speech area is also located in the left side of brain.
The bad news is that there is no treatment to fully cure her. If she had a smaller stroke, and she was seen in a hospital within four hours, she could have received thrombolytic (clot buster) therapy, which leads to good outcomes.
At this stage, she would get supportive treatment (physiotherapy, nutrition, BP and sugar control). In addition, physiotherapy and exercises would be started.
With good treatment, she can recover part of speech and weakness.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted the details of your sister.
She has a large brain stroke on the left side of brain, resulting in paralysis of right side of body (arm and leg) and loss of speech. Speech area is also located in the left side of brain.
The bad news is that there is no treatment to fully cure her. If she had a smaller stroke, and she was seen in a hospital within four hours, she could have received thrombolytic (clot buster) therapy, which leads to good outcomes.
At this stage, she would get supportive treatment (physiotherapy, nutrition, BP and sugar control). In addition, physiotherapy and exercises would be started.
With good treatment, she can recover part of speech and weakness.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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