Q. How to recover from blood clot in brain?

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• A stroke is an abrupt deprivation of the blood flow to the brain due to a blockage or the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.

• Acute ischemic stroke is caused by thrombotic or embolic occlusion of a cerebral artery and is more common than hemorrhagic stroke.

• In your father's case it is an acute ischemic stroke and appears to be MCA infarct (middle cerebral artery) according to the topographic distribution.

• Symptoms will be a combination of weakness in one side of the body, hemifacial droop, loss of speech, dysarthria, confusion, headache, etc.

• The therapeutic decisions and prognosis depends on NIHSS score (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale).

• Now with regard to prognosis it depends on the age, comorbidities and post stroke complications.

• Management is again a huge topic. The central goal of therapy is to restore circulation and preserve the brain tissue from damage.

• Many advanced therapies such as recanalization or fibrinolysis requires a window period of three hours.

• Medical therapy includes antiplatelet drugs like Aspirin, Clopidogrel, anticoagulant like Warfarin in cardioembolic stroke, BP medication, diabetic medication if required and antiseizure medication if required.

• If a disability has occurred like weakness, then physiotherapy and speech therapy for rehabilitation and promotion of early recovery is required.

• Yes, recovery is often very delayed and it requires a patient caretaker who provides emotional as well as physical support to the patient.

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