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Dr. Robert A. Kuhn holds dye gun he invented. Injected
dye exposes any blocked neck-blood vessels on X-ray film.
name is cerebrovascular angiography a medical jaw
breaker for "brain blood-vessel pictures."
Following the accurate diagnoses which angiography
makes possible, today's brain specialists bring people
back from the brink of death, or worse, the living death
of uselessness by judiciously combining (1) improved
anticoagulants to keep blood from clotting, (2) amazing
new chemicals that actually dissolve blood clots when
they have formed and caused a stroke, and (3) something
heretofore unheard of in stroke cases : routine surgery.
One OF the most valuable discoveries to emerge from
this all-out assault on our biggest killer of people in
the prime of life is that, in at least 10 percent of stroke
victims, the blockage of blood supply to the brain occurs
not in the brain itself but in the neck
. A fatty growth called an atheromatous plaque cause
unknown narrows one or more of the four neck arteries
through which the brain receives its enormous require
ments of blood (20 percent of the body's total supply, or
a complete change of freshly oxygenated blood from the
lungs and heart every six seconds'). You can feel this
surge of blood in the two arteries which rise on either
side of the neck below and forward of the ear. The other
pair, called vertebrals, hug the spinal column.
Since all four are easier to get at than the brain itself,
skilled surgeons can now safely remove fatty plugs from
these arteries to restore mind and body function in people
whose condition was formerly thought to be hopeless.
There is growing support for the view that many cases
of "second childhood" in oldsters stem from fat-plugged
neck arteries. When Grandpa starts acting foolish, it sim
ply may be a sign that his brain is not getting enough
blood. In such cases his family may find that by persuad
ing him to let a doctor investigate for blockages in his
neck arteries the.site where they occur most commonly
they have given him a chance to enjoy his sunset years in
full possession of his faculties.
How does a doctor "investigate neck arteries"? Laymen
seldom see surgery, but for more than a year I have
regularly had the privilege of watching Dr. Kuhn, a
pioneer in this field, perform his miracles on the ailing
human brain with a dye gun and a scalpel.
(Continued on page 12)
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