How do doctors treat mini-strokes?
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Nina Solenski, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, discusses the key treatments for preventing stroke.
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Nina Solenski
Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Virginia Health System
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu
434-924-1182
njs2j@virginia.edu
The University of Virginia's Department of Neurology is Virginia's foremost research and treatment center for disorders affecting the nervous system. Our neurology department is among the nation's top 20 centers ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We offer the most advanced diagnosis and treatment for strokes, headaches, epilepsy, dementias, movement disorders, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and all other neurological disorders and diseases.
How do doctors treat mini-strokes?
Nina Solenski, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, describes the two types of life-threatening strokes.
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Host:How do doctors treat mini-strokes?
Dr. Nina Solenski: They treat mini-strokes first of all as a serious warning sign, again, of stroke. So they treat them by number one giving a drug which will keep that clot from forming on those abnormal blood vessels. One of the most powerful drugs that we have is known as an anti-platelet drug. There are many anti-platelet drugs. The most common one that we all know about because it's probably sitting on our medicine chests is Aspirin. Aspirin is one of the very most powerful drugs that we have to prevent strokes after a mini-stroke. There are other compounds known as -- for example Clopidogrel or Plavix or Aggrenox. These are two other drugs that also work in the same way and they are important if Aspirin isn't the right drug for you. So looking at a patient's blood pressures, looking at a patient's blood work to see if they have diabetes, looking at their heart and doing special tests to make sure that the heart is healthy and also looking at those blood vessels of the neck and in the brain to make sure that they are healthy. So there is - it triggers off a whole series of tests to find out why did you have the mini-stroke and that's the most important thing, is why did this happen and identifying that will lead to the right tailor treatment for an individual.
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