They have support groups all over the country, and the contact person for the group nearest you may have a revommendation. I so hope that one of the vasculitis experts answers you. This is info that I've been trying to get for a long time. I have a similar condition, PACNS, and there seems to be very little specific info out there. I've posted on the member website, but I apparently never attempt to post on the expert site early enough to get my question on Good luck.
The new test that usually gives the answer is very easy to do and is called a macular OCT if that is indeterminate than a retinal fluoriscene angiogram (of the eye not brain and carotids) is usally done at the same time. I don't know where you live but retina ophthalmologists would not let your mom walk out the door without one or both tests being done. See if you get her to a retina MD tomorrow. ERs are not equipped to do this testing.
I had a CT angiogram for heart this week. Compared to a regular angiogram or catheterization , the CT angiogram can be considered a noninvasive procedure. However, in your dad's case the CT angiogram may also be considered risky because of kidney problems. His kidneys may not be able to deal with the dye used for CT angiogram. I am not a doctor so here I am just giving advice based on my on experience.
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Well the angiogram was normal.....as I expected. He wasn't going to commit to the neuro referral "yet" he said. He believes its RP. On another note I failed the two visual fields tests done that day. I'm very frustrated, because I can see fine. In the VF tests I can't distinguish between the flashing lights and the flashes I have all the time. I've told them that MANY times, but they insist that is the proper test.
my Dad is 67 years old and had memory loss ,slurred speech due to two little block in brain and blockage in internal carotid artery . The doppler study and MRI A angiogram showed 100% blockage of left internal carotid artery. The right artery had 30% 40% of block. His colateral blood is normal. he had diabeties and Bp for the past 1 1/2 years. he got blood supply through right arteries..
A doctor inserts a long thin tube into an artery in your legs and guides it through your blood vessels to the arteries in your neck that lead to your brain. A specialist injects dye into the arteries, which creates a map of your arteries and the aneurysm on xrays. CT can reveal blood flow in your brain and show aneurysm location.
There must have been some kind of vessel weakness/damage for it to bleed.
Perhaps your best plan would be to keep your blood pressure in the normal range, or better still, low normal. Any other vessels heading for the same problem would have a much greater chance to recover. Maybe a reason they didn't intervene is that the bleed was too too deep in the brain and the artery was too small for stenting etc ?
He ran a series of test and told her to return for an Angiogram on the eye with the Fovea. Why is an Angiogram necessary for this type of problem and if the Fovea is still there, is there a cure for it? What can they do for her Fovea?
This discussion is related to <a href='http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/224334'>Cataract Complication: Fovea leakage </a>.
Iam 31, 2 Months before i got the chest pain and I immediately rushed to the hospital. They did the ECG and found little changes in V4 - V5. And I went through the angiogram. The angiogram results shows negative. And doctor discharged from hospital with some prescription for 3 months.
Still I am getting the pain in center of chest. Two days before I went to doctor and in ECG found the V6 changes in the lead.
2011 she got admitted in hospital for neuro stroke,now dr suggested to take mri angiogram of brain.these are findings of mri angiogram of brain 1)Lacunar infarcts in bilateral subcortical frontal,parietal & occipital white matter.2)Acute infarct in left ACA territory.3)Diffuse cerebral & cerebellar atrophy.4)Occluded right ICA with reformation of MCA by PCOM.5)Atheromatous disease in left M1 with reduced calibre of M2/M3 and focal narrowing at M2.
They tought I had a brain anuerysm so I was sent to UCLA for a femoral artery angiogram. While on the table they injected dyeinto the left side of my brain and I immediatly had a seizure. Only the right side was affected. Thedoctor told me I had a seizure disorder on the left side of my brain that causes the right side to shake. Since January I have had some sort of episode at least every week and a half. I notice that I will feel tingling in my lower legs and/or arms. Lately (the last 2 mon.
Thank you so much for your response. I do have high blood pressure (last year I had they placed 4 stents in my heart vessels) and recently my cardiologist changed my medication. The MRI also found a "tiny aneurism" close to my optic nerve.
Results of the referral are basically that the blind spot is a combination of the laser surgery I had for Central serous choroidopathy (scarring) and more Central serous choroidopathy. He did mention that there were some anomolies with my visual field studies, and expressed a concern that there could be a potential of low tension glaucoma. So.... more tests every few months to check on that.
To follow up and close out - my throacic surgeon followed up with the doctors doing the angiogram and made it clear that he only wanted the angiogram done. (I might mention that my thoracic surgeon is one of the top in the world.) And, as the angiogram turned out, I have absolutely no blockage at all - zip, nil, none. (This to the absolute disgust of my wife who nags at me incessantly for putting so much butter on pancakes or 1/2 and 1/2 on my cereal.
He advised that the hemangioma I have on the left side is in no way responsible for the numbness, tingling, burning, or headaches that I have on the left side because the left side of the brain only affects the right side of the body. They have scheduled me for an EEG on Monday of next week to rule out seizures and to see if anything shows up there.
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