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2. Your biggest questions about strokes, answered - AOL

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   When someone has a stroke, a blood vessel to the brain bursts or is blocked by a clot. The result: Part of the brain cannot get the oxygen and nutrients it needs from blood, so brain cells die ...

3. Stroke recovery - Wikipedia

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   Unlike many effects of stroke, where the clinician is able to judge the particular area of the brain that a stroke has injured by certain signs or symptoms, the causation of apraxia is less clear. A common theory is that the part of the brain that contains information for previously learned skilled motor activities has been either lost or ...

4. He was given hours to live after stroke. 17 years later ...

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   Stroke is the 5th-leading cause of death in the U.S. and a leading cause of severe disability. On average, a person dies from stroke every 4 minutes.

5. After Mom-of-4 Collapses with Stroke, Community Rallies to ...

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   Her was later diagnosed with an ischemic stroke — in which blood can't reach the brain properly — and underwent two surgeries to stop the clots and to relieve the swelling in her brain.

6. Targeted temperature management - Wikipedia

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   Targeted temperature management (TTM), previously known as therapeutic hypothermia or protective hypothermia, is an active treatment that tries to achieve and maintain a specific body temperature in a person for a specific duration of time in an effort to improve health outcomes during recovery after a period of stopped blood flow to the brain. [1]

7. Brain healing - Wikipedia

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   Brain healing is the process that occurs after the brain has been damaged. If an individual survives brain damage, the brain has a remarkable ability to adapt. When cells in the brain are damaged and die, for instance by stroke, there will be no repair or scar formation for those cells.