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AT DEATH’S DOORSTEP A LIFE-SAVING PROCEDURE AT JACKSON’S STROKE CENTER BRINGS WOMAN BACK FROM THE EDGE
Paralyzed and Aware That She Was Dying, Woman Recovers Within Minutes
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It was Tuesday, April 9. 29 year old Jackie Sansone thought she was going to die. She was indeed having a stroke as her car crashed into the security gate at her apartment. “I was on my way back to work from a lunch break, when all of a sudden, I felt lightheaded, and my body stopped acting normal.”
Sansone was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, home of the Comprehensive Stroke Center.
“She was locked in, meaning she was wide awake, but completely paralyzed,” says Dr. Ali Aziz-Sultan, chief of Neuroendovascular Surgery, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. “Her physical body had stopped functioning; only her brain was working. The next step was brain death.”
UM/Jackson doctors worked quickly and performed a thrombectomy, a life-saving procedure removing a clot from the back of her neck. Within 15 minutes, she was brought back to near normal, talking and moving. “It’s because of my doctors quick thinking and action that I’m alive today, says Sansone.
“There are very few things in medicine that have had such a dramatic, sudden recovery from a horrendous prognosis,” says Dr. Sultan. “She literally went from almost brain dead, to perfect shortly after the procedure.”
The young, single mother of a three year old is still recuperating at Jackson, but wants to tell her story.
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Who:
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Jackie Sansone, patient; Ali Aziz-Sultan, M.D., UM/Jackson Neurosurgeon and Director of Neuroendovascular Surgery; Dr. Eric Peterson, Senior Fellow, Neurosurgeon; Dr. Diogo Haussen, Neurologist, Dr. Gustavo Ortiz, Neurologist
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What:
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Jackie Sansone talks about her life saving procedure by the Jackson Stroke team. Sansone’s physicians will provide details and video on the procedure, along with video of Sansone just minutes after the surgery.
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When:
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April
12, 2013, 2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
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Where:
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Jackson Memorial Hospital
Ira Clark Diagnostic Treatment Center, Room 252
Corner of Northwest 12th Avenue and 19th Street
Miami, FL 33136
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Editor’s Note:
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*Media can park outside of the Clark DTC.
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Jackson Health System
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue Miami, FL 33136
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