Stroke prevention tests
Common Questions and Answers about Stroke prevention tests
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Of course there is a difference in preparation and lowering your risks to help prevent stroke or heart attack. Prevention is always the best approach, as much as possible that is.
www.ashastd.org has info on std's for more reading to further educate yourself on std's, prevention, testing and treatment.
Virtually all persons with HIV develop positive antibody tests within 8 weeks of their exposure and have positive PCR or antigen tests well before that time. Blood banks in the U.S. typically use PCR type tests for testing and therefore detect infections earlier (they also sometimes have falsely positive results with this method). Irrespective, I can tell you however that your tests at 56 and 57 days are conclusive and you can be confident that you did not get HIV from him.
Eliquis which belongs to a class of drugs called Factor Xa inhibitors is a new generation oral anticoagulant / blood thinning drug and is expected to replace warfarin the current gold standard treatment for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
The clinical data on Eliquis in atrial fibrillation is most impressive, when compared to Xarelto or Pradaxa.
it hasnt happened for a few days now,there is no red marksonmy legs or buirning sensation someone suggested that it could be early signs of stoke,there are no stroke victims inmy family,i just put it downto stress.
I would say in general terms that loss of peripheral vision be it from glaucoma, stroke, retinal disease like retinitis pigmentosa or other causes is usually not something that can be rehabilitated. There are some new computer programs with vision simulators that try to help patients try to rehabilitate the use of lost peripheral vision mainly from stroke and there has be at least some encouraging, though limited, results with that.
Hi, of course 2 weeks is very soon to take any kind of HIV related screening tests. A rapid test needs waiting time of at least 6 weeks.
Treatment of stroke depends on whether the stroke is ischemic or hemorrhagic and on the underlying cause of the condition. The long-term goals of treatment include rehabilitation and prevention of additional strokes. In your uncle’s case it could be ischaemic or hemorrhagic stroke due to high BP. If it is a ischaemic infarct, anti platelet drugs, anti coagulants and thrombolytics are employed in the treatment. If it is hemorrhagic infarct the hematoma needs to be evacuated with surgery.
Did he present a plan for prevention of future stroke? Did he schedule any folow-up? Or did he just say he though this was a stroke, not MS. Wham, bam, thank-you madam.
I'm not sure one diagnosis is necessarily better than the other. They are different. Although physical therapy, better diet, adequate sleep, and life habits to reduce stress will help both conditions, some aspects of treatment and prevention are quite different.
Search for ‘Antiplatelet therapy for secondary prevention of stroke’. Under Aspirin, you will get the details. Good Luck.
Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
If he was falling frequently, sometimes the risk of staying on these meds (bleeding with fall that could lead to death) outweighs the benefit (stroke prevention which is a few percent per year), which is something his physician needs to determine. Given his age, and history of blood in stool and falls, it is reasonable to keep him on warfarin (coumadin), especially due to the evidence in people over 75 on Pradaxa, and the difficulty of reversal with Xarelto given his falls history.
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taking daily aspirin to prevent heart attack and stroke. Recent research has shed new light on this. Indeed, mounting evidence reported in a number of leading medical journals now suggests that if you’re healthy and not at significant risk for a heart attack, you should not be taking aspirin preventively. That’s because the studies show that aspirin doesn’t reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke in healthy people.
This exact same thing happened to my daughter when she was ten. She was sitting at the table eating breakfast when she said she lost vision in one of her eyes; she described it as a curtain coming down. Her cardiologist said the type of heart disease she had would not cause a stroke which is what that that sounded like. She had, and still has trouble with words dropping out of sentences when she reads ect.
Though they are of no immediate threat, all these causes, and the presence of ischemic changes can be a risk factor for future stroke.
I'm a 50 year old male with a family history of heart disease and stroke and am trying to prevent it if possible. I exercise daily and maintain a healthy diet. Will this be good enough in the long run? I tend to worry about it too much because of the problems my parents had but I think my numbers are good. BP runs about 115/65 on average and my total cholesterol is about 100, HDL 45. My glucose is about 85 so hopefully this will keep me out of trouble.
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