PMID: 16619783Apr 20, 2006Paper

Central DuPage Hospital ranks in top 10% of hospitals for pioneering stroke treatment

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Abstract

It wasn't long ago that patients suffering a stroke had little hope of recovering or even surviving after experiencing a bursting brain blood vessel or tiny clots in arteries that stop oxygen-rich blood flow, killing or damaging brain nerve cells. In 1996. one of the nation's top community hospitals started a comprehensive stroke program that today saves many lives.

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