Hi Doctor i am CCCC. My dad is 52 years and doctors took MRI ,CT, dopler of neck and confirmed that there is small clot in the back side of brain and he is on aspirin from past 3 months but suddenly before 3 days he fell unconsious around 4am in the morning. Is there any thing that we can do through surgery as he is suffereing from severe pain on the top of head until back part of neck. Please advice ASAP.
Hello Ravi and thanks for writing in at ChatDoctorI am Jr. to cardiologist and wants to help you out. You have not written any thigh about the site of the clot in your query. The nature of treatment lots depend on the site and size of the clot and the symptoms caused by it. As you have said you have done Color Doppler of neck, so there is more possibility that the clot may be in the carotid artery. The clot sometimes stops the flow of blood to the brain and causes unconsciousnesses and weakness of one limb for a short period of time. Now coming to the treatment, whether the clot in carotid or anywhere less, it can be treated by