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Our students seen on CBS’ 48 hours! Lowest prices! www.breakerstravel.com 800-985-6789. TUTORS Math tutoring- Algebra through Calculus 3 call 696-9113. The Battalion IN PRINT ONLINE ON RADIO g: News O Sports R Opinion ^ Mailcall .O Aggielife Photo Graphics ^ Comics ^ AP News ^ Classifieds 8 NATIOI Friday, February 6, 2004 THE BATTALIO! Tiny corkscrew retrieves blood clots from the brain preventing strokes By Daniel Q. Haney THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — A tiny experimental corkscrew threaded deep into the brain can pluck out deadly blood clots and stop a stroke in its tracks, potentially giving doctors an entirely new tool against this major killer. Nearly 90 percent of all strokes result from clots that lodge in the brain’s arteries, cutting off circulation and starving brain cells of oxygen and nutrition. The goal of the new device is to extract these clots before they do permanent harm. “It’s like pulling the cork out of a wine bot tle,” said Dr. Sidney Starkman, co-director of the UCLA Stroke Center. “What you want is to get the blood flowing back to the brain.” The device is the most advanced of sev eral new stroke treatment tools discussed Thursday at a meeting in San Diego of the American Stroke Association. The only treatment now available for the emergency care of strokes is TPA, the clot dissolving medicine also used to stop heart attacks. Only about 5 percent of stroke vic tims receive it, and among those, it helps only about one in eight. TPA can be used only within the first three hours after a stroke. Most victims arrive at the hospital too late, or they have other conditions that could cause the TPA to trigger disastrous bleeding in the brain. Surgical corkscrew plucks out blood clots Physicians can thread a miniature corkscrew into the brain that can pluck out a deadly blood clot during an ischemic stroke and quickly restore the flow to blocked blood vessels. Ischemic strokes are the third leading cause of deaths in the United States Retriev inside the micro catheter removes the Clot Drawings Doctors snake the micro catheter from the leg to the brain. SOURCES: Concentric Medical, Inc. AP Starkman directed testing of the corkscrew — called the Merci Retrieval System — on 109 patients. All had suffered severe strokes within the previous eight hours, and none could be given TPA. The corkscrew successfully retrieved the clot in half of them. Three-quarters of these patients survived, and 40 percent had few or no lasting disability. Among those in whom the clot could not be removed, half survived and just 6 percent had a good recovery. Starkman said many of the patients were paralyzed on one side or could not talk when the procedure began. “What’s really remarkable is we can see the problem and pull it out,” he said. “In some patients, the moment the clot came out, they could move again or talk normally. It was instantaneous.” Starkman’s study was financed by the corkscrew’s maker. Concentric Medicaid Mountain View, Calif. Based on this stud); the company has asked the Food and Dnij Administration for approval to sell fc device. An FDA advisory committee review it later this month. The National Institutes of Health nil sponsor a larger study of the device. Patieins will be randomly assigned to get eitherlj corkscrew or routine care. Dr. Larry Goldstein, head of the cett brovascular center at Duke University, sail patients who got the corkscrew appeared! do better than expected. However, he * tioned that the many patients whose clotsil not show up on brain scans would not be el gible for the treatment. “It won’t be a panacea,” he said. Another drawback is that it can be don only by specially trained neuroradiologisii A UCLA survey found that 82 percent oft population lives within a three-hourdriveof a hospital that could do the procedure. Dr. Morgan S. Campbell of the Alabani Neurological Institute in Birmingham pit. sented preliminary results of anofc approach intended to improve circulation! the brain after a stroke. The treatmei involves inflating balloons in the abdomini aorta, forcing more blood to the head. The initial safety testing showed improvd cerebral blood flow in 12 of 16 patients. Hi device, called NeuroFlo, was developed d CoAxia of Maple Grove, Minn. NEWS IN BRIEF Body found identified as missing professor FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — One of two people accused of abducting and killing a retired Texas Christian University professor told police he wrapped duct tape around her face after leaving a grocery store parking lot, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Edward Busby, 31, and Kathleen Latimer, 39, both of Fort Worth, were charged with capital murder Wednesday in the death of Laura Lee Crane. They were jailed on $1 million bond in Oklahoma City, where they were arrested Sunday after being stopped driving Crane’s car. Crane’s body was found Tuesday afternoon off Interstate 35 near Davis, Okla. An autopsy showed she was asphyxiated. She was abducted Friday. Busby said that he drove Crane away from the lot before putting duct tape around her face so that Crane was unable to breath, according to capitf murder warrants obtained Wednesday by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Busby said that he and Latimer drove to Ardmore, where they spei the night, and that Crane was dead when he checked on her the net morning, according to the affidavits. Authorities were led to the body after Busby confessed, said Fort Wort police Lt. Roger Dixon, a detective who went to Oklahoma City toque tion the suspects. Crane's body was found at the bottom of an embankment with duct tape across her face, Dixon said. Her death was ruled homicide 1) asphyxiation, and she also had suffered blunt force trauma, he said. Dixon would not say when or in which state Crane was killed. Diw said robbery was a motive and that she appeared to be a random tarje! Heeler puppies, red and blues, their claws removed and tails docked $150 979-774- 3738 Jamie. Labs: yellow, AKC, OFA cert., shots, champion blood lines, dewormed declaws, $400. 979-492-0425 Twelve week old pit bull puppy with all shots. Call Katy at 979-676-0866. 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College Bible Study 6:30 pm www.pbccs.org Cathode St. Mary’s Catholic Center Church Avenue in Northgate (979)846-5717 www.aaaiecatholic.org Pastoral Team Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor Rev. Keith Koehl, Associate Pastor - Campus Ministers - Deacon Bill Scott, Deacon David Reed, Martha Tonn, Julia Motekaitis Dawn Rouen, Roel Garza Daily Masses Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m. in the Church Tues.&Thurs.: 12:05 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel Weekend Masses Sat: 2:00 p.m. (Korean), 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 p.m. (Spanish) Sun.: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Confessions Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. 4:00-5:15 p.m. or by appointment. 603 A&M Church of Christ 1901 Harvey Mitchell Pkwy. 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