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Rocktheworld said:
Another (relatively) common cause of stroke in the young adult population is a congenital defect of the venous system in the brain. Arterovenous malformation is the technical term if you care to look it up. I’ve seen several young people with strokes and that was the cause the majority of the time, and the prognosis often isn’t great
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Brings to mind A.J. Price. He went on to play 4-5 years in the NBA.
 
CL82 said:
Brings to mind A.J. Price. He went on to play 4-5 years in the NBA.
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We had an office manager who had the same condition. She'd had a history of severe migraine headaches. They didn't diagnose her condition until she was in her mid-40's. The doctor who performed the surgery on her was the same one that operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords from Tucson after the assassination attempt on her. After surgery, our office manager returned to work with no ill effects. I think her recovery time was a month or less.
 
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UConnNick said:
We had an office manager who had the same condition. She'd had a history of severe migraine headaches. They didn't diagnose her condition until she was in her mid-40's. The doctor who performed the surgery on her was the same one that operated on the Congresswoman from Tucson after the assassination attempt on her. After surgery, our office manager returned to work with no ill effects. I think her recovery time was a month or less.
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That's just amazing.
 
CL82 said:
That's just amazing.
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I believe that there is a drugs if given within a hour after the stroke, helps reduce the affects of the stroke or a least minimizes it. I had a stroke 9 years ago, not nearly as severe as Eli’s, which left me with weakness on my left side. This was before this drug was available. I had a previous stroke of which I was unaware.
 
Teddy Brusci. Of the Pats. Is another athlete who recovered from a stroke
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Yup.

Another (relatively) common cause of stroke in the young adult population is a congenital defect of the venous system in the brain. Arterovenous malformation is the technical term if you care to look it up. I’ve seen several young people with strokes and that was the cause the majority of the time, and the prognosis often isn’t great

Or of course it could be a ruptured aneurysm.
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Rocktheworld said:
Yup.

Another (relatively) common cause of stroke in the young adult population is a congenital defect of the venous system in the brain. Arterovenous malformation is the technical term if you care to look it up. I’ve seen several young people with strokes and that was the cause the majority of the time, and the prognosis often isn’t great

Or of course it could be a ruptured aneurysm.
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My 6 year old nephew died from a ruptured aneurysm (1975)
 
I wondered if he suffered the same type of stroke that my wife suffered last December. It was clot caused by a hole in her heart called a PFO (patent foramen ovale). The foramen ovale is a hole in the heart's septum that we are all born with, but in 25% of us, it doesn't close. The PFO causes agitation in the heart which can throw a clot in rare instances.

My wife was 46 at the time and in good health. her symptoms were partial paralysis in her face and arm as well as speech confusion. What caused it absolutely baffled the doctors. The PFO wasn't detected by ultrasound and was only found by an internal echo (down her esophagus). So she's lived with the PFO which went undetected for 46 years. She's since had a device implanted to close the hole.

It was freaking scary. Eight hours after the stroke, she couldn't sign her admittance form. 10 days later she was back at work as a professor with no lasting effects. She only told a few coworkers what actually happened and most have no idea that she had a stroke.
 
AreBee1969 said:
I wondered if he suffered the same type of stroke that my wife suffered last December. It was clot caused by a hole in her heart called a PFO (patent foramen ovale). The foramen ovale is a hole in the heart's septum that we are all born with, but in 25% of us, it doesn't close. The PFO causes agitation in the heart which can throw a clot in rare instances.

My wife was 46 at the time and in good health. her symptoms were partial paralysis in her face and arm as well as speech confusion. What caused it absolutely baffled the doctors. The PFO wasn't detected by ultrasound and was only found by an internal echo (down her esophagus). So she's lived with the PFO which went undetected for 46 years. She's since had a device implanted to close the hole.

It was freaking scary. Eight hours after the stroke, she couldn't sign her admittance form. 10 days later she was back at work as a professor with no lasting effects. She only told a few coworkers what actually happened and most have no idea that she had a stroke.
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Wow, scary. I'm glad it worked out so well.
 
AreBee1969 said:
I wondered if he suffered the same type of stroke that my wife suffered last December. It was clot caused by a hole in her heart called a PFO (patent foramen ovale). The foramen ovale is a hole in the heart's septum that we are all born with, but in 25% of us, it doesn't close. The PFO causes agitation in the heart which can throw a clot in rare instances.

My wife was 46 at the time and in good health. her symptoms were partial paralysis in her face and arm as well as speech confusion. What caused it absolutely baffled the doctors. The PFO wasn't detected by ultrasound and was only found by an internal echo (down her esophagus). So she's lived with the PFO which went undetected for 46 years. She's since had a device implanted to close the hole.

It was freaking scary. Eight hours after the stroke, she couldn't sign her admittance form. 10 days later she was back at work as a professor with no lasting effects. She only told a few coworkers what actually happened and most have no idea that she had a stroke.
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Was your wife born premature?
 
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I don't know much about trauma medicine, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn express. Privacy laws in healthcare are pretty strictly followed, so it's going to be held tight to the vest as to what the actual Dx is unless family and friends start talking, and lawyers will law, so there is that to consider, but by what I can gather reading the collated news, is that there is very little to go on as to how this kid is actually doing.

It seems that the medical response to the CVA was about as quick and thorough as could be, so that's good. It would stand to reason that outcome will therefore be the best possible.

Hope to see this kid up and about again as soon as can be.
 
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