‘We got the monster out’ When a bad headache leads to brain surgery for a 4-year-old girl, her parents explain it in words she can understand. Sue Thoms | susan.thoms@spectrumhealth.org | July 29, 2019 (view a pdf version) Kymber Stockton knew nothing of brain tumors and vascular malformations. Only 4 years old, she never even […]
Middle-of-night terror leads to innovative brain treatment
Tom Corbin lived to tell a story that he hopes others can learn from Helen Adams |adamshel@musc.edu| July 31, 2017 It was 1 in the morning, and Tom Corbin was relaxing after a 12-hourwork shift. He’d taken a nap and watched the TV show “South Park.” The Mount Pleasant man didn’t know it, but he […]
When the Stars Align: Trained Surgeon + New Technology & Early Intervention Save Life of Patient with Hemorrhagic Stroke
Posted by NICO Corporation – Jun 01 2017 It was a perfectly normal day. Cathy Alexander was starting the new year by visiting her mom in Cleveland—two hours away from her home in Columbus, Ohio. They were having coffee and an enjoyable breakfast before Cathy would start on her way back home. Cathy’s husband, Mike, […]
New Technology in Treating Hemorrhagic Stroke: Is a New Gold Standard on the Horizon?
MEDICAL DEVICE NEWS MAGAZINE THE GO-TO-MAGAZINE FOR THE PRACTICING MEDICAL SPECIALIST May 10, 2017 by Larry Dickinson, MD There is an unmet need in the United States and abroad for the treatment of hemorrhagic stroke. But now, this deadliest, costliest and most debilitating form of stroke with no surgical standard is experiencing a paradigm shift. […]
Stroke Champ Meets a Champ
Posted by Lynn Bronikowski – Mar 14 2017 On March 21, 2016, stroke survivor Bryan Melchor met his hero—professional boxing legend Manny Pacquiao. And on that same day, Pacquiao met his hero—Bryan Melchor, who in August 2015 just after singing at his church service experienced a brain stem stroke. He was in a coma for […]
Trial on Early Intervention of Hemorrhagic Stroke Advances
Posted by Lynn Bronikowski – Jan 17, 2017 Medical device maker NICO Corp. has enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial designed to determine the procedural safety and economic and functional benefit of early surgical removal of intracerebral hemorrhage using its BrainPath Approach™. The randomized trial, called ENRICH (Early MiNmally-invasive Removal of ICH) is […]
“Miracle Patient” Undergoes Revolutionary Surgery
Posted by Lynn Bronikowski – Sep 26, 2016 It was Thanksgiving weekend in 2014 when Bob Edwards found his wife, Virginia, slumped on the floor of their suburban Chicago home. She had experienced a hemorrhagic stroke. She was rushed to NorthShore Neurological Institute where Bob watched over her in NorthShore’s Intensive Care Unit and remained […]
New procedure allows doctors to navigate delicate brain tissue to treat bleeding strokes
August 9, 2016 By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS Any stroke can leave a devastating wake of damage in the brain, harming a person’s ability to move and talk and think. But hemorrhagic strokes —the less-common type caused by bleeding in the brain —have been the most frustrating because treatment options are few and outcomes so […]