A Sri Lankan student of DU recalls her story after recovering from brain stroke
A Sri Lankan student of DU recalls her story after recovering from brain stroke
Aamir had a Polaroid camera and an eight-pack body for keeping his memory that wiped out every 15 minutes.
For 26-year-old Priyamvada Pareira it was her parents who constantly helped her keep in touch with the real world.
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Pareira, who hails from Sri Lanka, fell unconscious on the floor while performing dance in the Sri Lankan High Commission on November 10, 2006. The BA (Hons) English student of Miranda House college of the Delhi University was rushed to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital where she was diagnosed with brain stroke.
Though Aamir was not able to get immediate help, Pareira was lucky enough to have reached in the right hands. A new revolutionary technique in neurosurgeryu00a0Neurointerventionu00a0helped Pareira to tide over what could have been a life-threatening situation for her. The technique involves putting a wire mesh like structure i.e. stent and platinum coils in brain arteries by making a small puncture in the femoral artery in the thigh. It opens the clogged the arteries as well as repair the damage walls. Pareira returned to Sri Lanka after the surgery.
But life was not the same for her. "I spoke to my doctor and had no clue what was happening. While going back to my country I kept asking my parents what happened to me and who is my doctor?" she told MiD DAY on a recent visit to India to attend a doctor's conclave on Neurointervention.
"I would listen to the same CD again and again and admire a particular song. I even forgot that my grandfather has expired," Pareira, an avid music lover, said while recalling her amnesia days.
However, the thing that she missed the most was the fact that South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes. "I cried so much when I came to know that he broke his finger during one of the matches. How could I forget him."
| *u00a0According to the registry maintained by the Neurosciences centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a fourth of patients suffering from brain strokes are young adults. And the cases are steadily rising as the strokes in young patients often go undetected. Stroke is said to be the third leading cause of death in world and the second largest in India. *u00a0Brain stroke symptoms like dizziness, temporary loss of vision, sudden weakness in limbs and difficulty in speaking or understanding words are often dismissed as weakness. *u00a0In the developed world prevalence of stroke among young adult is 3.5-8 per cent, but in India it is up to 35 per cent. n According to the Indian Council for Medical Research prevalence of brain stroke is nearly 250-300 per 100,000 but in some part it is as high as 800-900 peru00a0100,000 people. *u00a0Neurointervention has significantly changed the outcome of this catastrophic illness. Although the cost involved in Neurointervention procedures are a bit higher than the conventional surgeries, an avg case of coiling would cost somewhere around Rs 1.5-2 lacs, the fact that the hospital stay is hardly for two-three days, more than makes up for the difference. *u00a0The Stroke and Neurointervention Foundation (SNIF) is raising awareness about the technique and encouraging the medical practitioners to adopt and train in the revolutionary technology to combat stroke cases. |
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