🔁Mario Nawfal:
🚨🇺🇸 NEW “MAGIC” DEVICE COULD CRUSH STROKES… LITERALLY
Imagine a teensy tornado weaponized inside your arteries, pulverizing deadly brain clots into dust.
That’s the mind-blowing premise behind Stanford’s milli-spinner - a whirling micro-gadget so effective, researchers have actually called it “magic.”
Every minute a stroke starves your brain of blood, you lose about 1.9 million neurons and a week of living independently.
The nightmare is especially real with ischemic strokes, where a clot blocks blood flow.
And while doctors have fancy gear to yank clots out, the nastier, denser ones often laugh off the tools or crumble into clot confetti, drifting deeper into your brain like tiny demolition bombs.
Enter Stanford’s latest flex. The milli-spinner is a hollow, finned, super-speed rotating tube small enough to snake into blood vessels via a catheter.
It spins so furiously that it physically squashes and shreds clots into a fraction of their original size - sometimes slashing them by up to 95%. Instead of wrestling with stubborn clots over multiple tries, doctors could yank them out cleanly on the first go.
And it’s not just hype.
In lab simulations and live pig arteries, the milli-spinner cleared blockages in seconds, restoring blood flow up to four times more effectively than current tools.
Dr. Heitremy Heit, Stanford’s top brain plumber, admitted he was stunned:
“It literally spins this thing into a tiny clot and just sucks it into the catheter in seconds.”
Stroke is the 5th-biggest killer in the U.S., claiming 160,000 lives annually.
Roughly 9 in 10 strokes come from clot blockages, yet current gadgets only succeed on the first attempt about half the time.
More attempts mean more brain damage - and higher odds of lifelong disability.
The milli-spinner could change that grim math. It crushes clots instead of fracturing them, which means fewer pieces drifting off to wreak havoc elsewhere in the brain.
🚨🇺🇸 NEW “MAGIC” DEVICE COULD CRUSH STROKES… LITERALLY
Imagine a teensy tornado weaponized inside your arteries, pulverizing deadly brain clots into dust.
That’s the mind-blowing premise behind Stanford’s milli-spinner - a whirling micro-gadget so effective, researchers have actually called it “magic.”
Every minute a stroke starves your brain of blood, you lose about 1.9 million neurons and a week of living independently.
The nightmare is especially real with ischemic strokes, where a clot blocks blood flow.
And while doctors have fancy gear to yank clots out, the nastier, denser ones often laugh off the tools or crumble into clot confetti, drifting deeper into your brain like tiny demolition bombs.
Enter Stanford’s latest flex. The milli-spinner is a hollow, finned, super-speed rotating tube small enough to snake into blood vessels via a catheter.
It spins so furiously that it physically squashes and shreds clots into a fraction of their original size - sometimes slashing them by up to 95%. Instead of wrestling with stubborn clots over multiple tries, doctors could yank them out cleanly on the first go.
And it’s not just hype.
In lab simulations and live pig arteries, the milli-spinner cleared blockages in seconds, restoring blood flow up to four times more effectively than current tools.
Dr. Heitremy Heit, Stanford’s top brain plumber, admitted he was stunned:
“It literally spins this thing into a tiny clot and just sucks it into the catheter in seconds.”
Stroke is the 5th-biggest killer in the U.S., claiming 160,000 lives annually.
Roughly 9 in 10 strokes come from clot blockages, yet current gadgets only succeed on the first attempt about half the time.
More attempts mean more brain damage - and higher odds of lifelong disability.
The milli-spinner could change that grim math. It crushes clots instead of fracturing them, which means fewer pieces drifting off to wreak havoc elsewhere in the brain.
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