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JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 15
A FULL LIFE RESTORED
Mrs. Wecker’s MRI had located the blood
clot in a vessel on the left side of her brain.
Prof. Bendszus inserted the REVIVE™ SE
Device into her groin with a microcatheter
and guided it up an artery to the blockage
area while watching the image on a screen.
The device’s mesh basket expanded,
pushing the clot against the vessel wall
and restoring blood flow to the brain. Prof.
Bendszus then retrieved and removed
the blood clot that caused Mrs. Wecker’s
stroke and the complete paralysis of
her right side. Before the procedure,
neurologists had also administered the
standard treatment for ischemic stroke,
tPA, a clot-dissolving drug.
The next day, Mrs. Wecker was served
potatoes and roast pork for lunch, but
no one had cut up the meat for her. “So I
tried cutting up the meat myself, and my
hand worked,” she says. “The day before,
I couldn’t move my hand, and now I was
cutting schweinebraten!” When Mrs.
Wecker’s husband and son visited, “We
couldn’t believe she was sitting there,
waving and smiling at us, and that she
could speak perfectly fine,” Mr. Wecker
says. She left the hospital six days after her
stroke, not needing rehabilitation.
Once home, Mrs. Wecker resumed
her full lifestyle, working as a tax adviser,
visiting her grandchildren and enjoying her
garden. “I can do everything I did before,”
she says. “The operation took just 25
minutes, and it probably saved my life.”
LIFE AFTER STROKE The REVIVE™ SE Device helped save Brünhilde Wecker’s life when she suffered a stroke.
She enjoys her active lifestyle and time in her garden with her husband, Ehrenfried.