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Biggest
Killer at Bay
Strokes still take a huge death toll but the
invisible fingers of X rays and the skilled hands of
surgeons are switching the odds in the patients' favor
By JAMES C. G. CONNIFF
Recently I stood at the bed
side of a New Jersey mother
of seven small children, watched
her smile, heard her speak, and
saw her raise her hand in greeting.
Not long before, she had been in a coma
for almost two weeks, the victim of a
stroke that had cut down the flow of blood
to her brain.
I had held my breath at the climax of
the operation when Dr. Robert A. Kuhn, a
brain surgeon, had lifted a yellow plug of
fat from the woman's neck and handed it
to me on gauze.
It was as hard to the touch as a nut
kernel, which it resembled. The blood flow
which pulsed through the now-sutured
artery to awaken her brain' had not been
able to get past it. Left there, it would
have killed her.
The joy on her face made me realize the
importance of the fight being waged
against strokes by men like Dr. Kuhn.
Less than a decade ago, this mother and
scores of persons like her would have
died. But now medical genius has learned
to probe with scalpels and with fingers of
invisible light into the dark and delicate
kingdom of the brain. As a result, damage
to this complex organ is no longer a dis
aster which we can do little or nothing
about but an often repairable, sometimes
even preventable, illness.
As commonly used, "stroke" is a catchall
term. Under it are lumped a large number
of brain-damage problems resulting from
the interruption of the supply of blood
to that organ.
These illnesses strike persons of all
ages. But the statistics are most spec
tacular for men and women between 25
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and 44. In this age group, strokes are the
nation's No. 1 killer, the U. S. Public
Health Service reports.
At least 200,000 Americans die of
strokes each year. Those are the diagnosed
cases. But medical men themselves think
that undiagnosed stroke deaths may easily
be three to four times that number.
Then there are also those who are drag
ging out their lives on their backs or in
wheel chairs, often unable to speak or see
or move a limb to help themselves. They
are the more than 2,000,000 stroke victims
who depending on how you look at it
were lucky and survived.
Today, this picture is rapidly changing.
Stroke survivors and potential .stroke
victims alike can take heart from good
news which has crystallized only in the past
five to eight years. The hopeful message:
neither the slow build-up of stroke symp
toms nor the sudden disabling interruption
of blood supply to some part of the brain
necessarily means the onset of doom.
Odds against having to spend the rest of
one's life after a stroke as a vegetating
cripple are definitely on the upturn.
THE reason is that no stroke need any
longer go undiagnosed and hence un
treated. Doctors have learned that when a
stroke occurs these days, they do not have
to "wait and see" while their patients'
brain damage becomes irreversible. For
the first time, they can call in specialists
to find out (1) exactly what went wrong
and (2) precisely where in the brain's
blood-supply system it happened. Guided
by this sure knowledge, medical science
can take specific remedial action.
The diagnostic tool which eliminates
guesswork in stroke cases is a simple new
application of the familiar X ray. Its