
Boy, 6, suffers life-threatening stroke that causes paralysis: 'Rare complication'
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Doctors at OSF HealthCare performed a rare thrombectomy on a child, saving him from paralysis after a stroke caused by a blood clot linked to a flu complication.
"No movement was possible, and the vision in his left visual field was lost." "We had to take that clot out. If we hadn’t, chances are he would have gone on to develop a very big stroke." Melissa Rudy is senior health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to melissa.rudy@fox.com.
"He just fell off the chair and was limp," recalled Shawn Patton, Preston’s father, according to a press release from OSF HealthCare. "I didn’t think it was a stroke, but I just knew something was wrong."
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