Fri November 15, 2013  Time and awareness is key to treating a
stroke  Knowing how to recognize the symptoms of stroke can mean
the difference between life and death. Lorraine Rapp and Linda
Lowen, hosts of WRVO's health and wellness show Take Care, spoke
with Dr. Larry Goldstein, professor of neurology and director of
Duke University's Stroke Center about what you should do if you
suspect a loved one has had a stroke.  Lorraine Rapp: Describe
what takes place in the body when a person is having a stroke?
Dr. Larry Goldstein: Stroke is not one disease or one process.
As we think about it, there are two major types. There’s what we
call an ischemic stroke, and that’s when a blood vessel to or
within in the brain is closed off, and what it does is starve
that portion of the brain of blood and oxygen, so the brain
cells then die. The second major type of stroke is what we call
hemorrhagic stroke, and that can occur in two main or different
types. One is when there is bleeding within the brain itself,
and then t