Diagnosis & Treatment
How is Stroke Diagnosed?
Your board-certified neurologist will quickly conduct physical and neurological exams and ask you several questions about your symptoms, checking your:
- Balance
- Circulation
- Comprehension
- Coordination
- Intracranial atherosclerotic disease
- Muscle strength
- Muscle tone
- Reflexes
- Sense of sight and touch
- Speech
Your doctor may order some of the following tests:
- Cerebral angiography
- Brain CT scan (computed tomography)
- Brain MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
- Carotid duplex
- CT (computed tomography) angiography
- Echocardiogram
- Diagnostic Angiography
- Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
- Preoperative embolization of brain tumors
Conditions Treated at Saint Francis Hospital
- Stroke – acute ischemic and hemorrhagic
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
- Vasculitis
- Moya Moya disease
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Carotid stenosis
- Arterial Dissections
- Cerebral venous thrombosis
- Vascular malformations (AVM)
- Arterio-venous fistulas
How is Stroke Treated?
Call 911 immediately if you or a loved one experiences any signs of a stroke or mini-stroke.
Saint Francis Hospital's expert services cover every aspect of stroke care for patients and their families, including emergency stroke treatment. Because the first three hours after a stroke are critically important, Saint Francis Hospital's emergency stroke team is adept at immediately determining the best course of treatment through a variety of testing and diagnostic procedures. Saint Francis provides round-the-clock stroke care 365 days a year.
Treatments/Procedures Performed at Saint Francis Hospital
- Thrombolytics for acute Stroke
- Thrombectomy for Acute Stroke
- Aneurysm coiling and clipping
- Arterial embolization for epistaxis & arteriovenous malformation
- Carotid Artery Stenting / endarterectomy
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) closure
- Intracranial stenting for ICAD, EDAS and EC-IC bypass procedures