Apollo Hospitals OMR Performs Lifesaving procedures on Patients who suffered Simultaneous Stroke and Heart Attack
- Stroke is the second leading cause of death or disability after Ischemic Heart Disease.
- Immediate medical intervention could reverse the effects of stroke in a patient who enters an ER within the golden period of time.
Chennai: Apollo
Speciality Hospitals OMR has achieved yet another milestone by performing lifesaving
procedures on four patients who
suffered Stroke and Heart Attack. Dr. Karthikeyan, Interventional Neurologist,
Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR and Dr. Arul E.D, Interventional Cardiologist together
achieved this most challenging feat.
It is most unlikely that a stroke is
accompanied by a heart attack. Heart attacks and ischemic strokes have nearly
identical risk factors—namely, high blood pressure, diabetes, unhealthy
cholesterol levels, lack of exercise, obesity, and cigarette smoking.
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(L to R) Dr. J. Devachandran, Consultant Critical Care, Apollo
Speciality Hospitals OMR; Mr Daniel 64-year-old patient; Dr Arul E.D, Interventional Cardiologist Apollo
Speciality Hospitals OMR; Dr Karthikeyan, Interventional Neurologist, Apollo
Speciality Hospitals OMR
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Stress, Lifestyle changes and dietary
habits appear to be the main cause of brain and heart diseases. Youngsters
follow a frantic lifestyle, spending more than 12 to 14 hours at work, including
late night and sleep deprived shifts. They cause more harm to themselves by
eating junk foods, smoking and alcohol abuse. These are observed as some of the
causes of stroke and heart ailments in young people, on the other hand, genetic
factors, coagulation disorder, vasculitis and dissection could also be the
cause.
Dr. Karthikeyan, Interventional Neurologist,
Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR and Dr. Arul E.D, Interventional Cardiologist
recently completed complicated procedures on two individuals who presented
themselves with Stroke and Heart attack symptoms.
Mr. Ukramoorthy, 83 year old patient
was brought to Apollo with limb weakness and chest pain, it was identified that
he suffered block in the heart as well has symptoms of stroke. The doctors
performed angioplasty to remove the clot in the blood vessel in his heart
within 15 to 20 minutes and immediately performed a mechanical thrombectomyto remove the clot
from his brain and stabilized him. This is a very rare occurrence and it's highly fatal we manage
to save both the organ and he recovered completely from the symptoms.
Below are the details of three other
patients who had suffered both heart attack and stroke in short intervals. (All
the procedures were performed during the months July to September)
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| (L to R) Mr Daniel 64-year-old patient; Dr Arul E.D, Interventional Cardiologist Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR; Dr Karthikeyan, Interventional Neurologist, Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR |
Mr.
Daniel 64 year old patient had sudden weakness of left upper limb and lower
limb and with mild chest pain he was evaluated to have acute myocardial
infarction (heart attack) with stroke, patient was immediately shifted to the
cath lab where he underwentintravenous thrombolysis for the
brain and on a later day underwent angioplasty
for the heart.
Mr.
Naren (name changed),34 years-old corporate employee from Chennai and Mr.
Kannan (Name Changed) 32 years-old corporate employee from Chennai were
presented with acute weakness of left upper and lower limb along with chest
pain and was diagnosed with myocardial infarction with acute stroke. The team
of doctors, including Dr. Karthikeyan and Dr. Aul ED, performed intravenous
thrombolysis which helps in lysing the blood clot in the blood vessels in the
brain of the patients and also performed angioplasty to remove the blocks in their heart.
A patient with stroke symptoms should
be treated within the golden hour period
(first Three hours) as this will enhance the chance of his/her recovery
rate. Both the patients mentioned above were brought to the hospital within the
golden hour period, which helped in their remarkable recovery from both stroke
and heart attack.
Presenting the cases, Dr. Karthikeyan, Consultant Interventional
Neurologist,and Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR said, “Around 10,000 people
are affected by stroke every year in Chennai out of which only 20 percentage of
them reach the hospital on time. Over the last two years we have treated around
400 patients for stroke and only 50 of them reached the hospital within the
golden hour period. Among which 90% of our patients have been recovered from
symptoms. Our stroke unit is comprised of round the clock Emergency Physicians,
Neurologists, Interventional neurologists, Intervention radiologists, Intensive
care physician, Neurosurgeon, trained stroke nurse and physiotherapist.”
Any patient who suffers stroke must
be observed and evaluated for heart attack too as stroke indicates that the
patient are at high risk for future cardiac problems
and these two case studies proves the same.
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