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Date:1/22/2008

more advanced IA therapy involves placing a tiny tube, called a catheter, through a nick in the patient's groin and advancing it through the artery all the way to the blockage in the brain. Clot-buster drugs can then be administered directly to the clot to break it up and open up blood flow. Alternatively, a tiny corkscrew-like device can be placed in the clot to pull it out. IA therapy can be performed up to eight hours after the onset of stroke, but is available at far fewer medical centers.

Sacred Heart Medical Center offers both IV and IA therapy. At the center, stroke patients first undergo brain imaging with computed tomography (CT) to determine if the stroke is ischemic or hemorrhagic. If a patient comes to Sacred Heart less than three hours after the onset of an ischemic stroke, he or she will be given IV therapy. If the symptoms don't improve in an hour, IA therapy is administered. If the patient comes to the hospital more than three hours after the beginning of the stroke, IA therapy is used immediately.

Dr. Zylak will report results on a subset of patients who were treated at Sacred Heart from 2004 through 2007: 80 who received IV therapy and 43 who received IA therapy. The latter number includes patients who received IA therapy after failing IV therapy. Success rates of IA therapy -- defined as opening up of the blocked vessel -- were 85.7 percent in 2006 and 83.3 percent in 2007. Although death rates were 30.8 percent in 2006 and 27.8 percent in 2007, they were half the death rates of 50 to 80 percent published in the natural history outcomes of large-vessel strokes.

"Without any question, we definitely were able to help patients who failed IV therapy by providing IA therapy," said Dr. Zylak, who also is an interventional radiologist with Inland Imaging, Spokane. "In the future, for large-vessel clots IA therapy may well be the best direct therapy, bypassing IV therapy."

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