{"id":396,"date":"2010-04-27T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:51:10","slug":"what-the-medical-experts-say-about-rocker-bret-michaels-prognosis-after-brain-hemorrhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/what-the-medical-experts-say-about-rocker-bret-michaels-prognosis-after-brain-hemorrhage.html","title":{"rendered":"What The Medical Experts Say About Rocker Bret Michaels&#8217; Prognosis After Brain Hemorrhage"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u00a0Rocker and reality TV star Bret Michaels remained in an Intensive Care Unit Tuesday under 24-hour surveillance as doctors try to find the source of the bleeding in his brain. How the \u201cCelebrity Apprentice\u201d contestant does during the next few days is crucial.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0In the meantime, there have been many press stories theorizing, or interviewing physicians, about what caused the Poison frontman\u2019s subarachnoid hemorrhage last Thursday night, and what his prognosis is for the future.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Updates about Michaels\u2019 condition are being posted on his Facebook page. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/bret-michaels\/sunday-update-on-brets-condition\/388988472569%23!\/notes\/bret-michaels\/bret-michaels-update-42610\/389241632569\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/bret-michaels\/sunday-update-on-brets-condition\/388988472569#!\/notes\/bret-michaels\/bret-michaels-update-42610\/389241632569<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOnce again we can&#8217;t thank everyone enough for all the well wishes and prayers being sent Bret&#8217;s way!\u201d the page said Tuesday morning. \u201cLook for an official medical report from doctors this week at BretMichaels.com. Please remember Bret is, and always has been, a fighter and survivor and is under the best medical care possible.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u201cReportedly, Bret Michaels didn\u2019t sustain any trauma,\u201d Rob Brouhard wrote on About.com. \u201cHe just started bleeding near his brain stem. It has been reported that doctors aren\u2019t exactly sure what caused the bleeding, but the overwhelming speculation is that Michaels had a brain aneurysm, one version of a stroke.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Brouhard defined an aneurysm as a \u201csoft spot\u201d in a blood vessel that ruptures if pressure gets high or there is a blow to that area.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0AOL Health spoke to Dr. Jeffrey Thomas, spokesman for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, about what might be causing Michaels\u2019 bleeding. Thomas said it could be due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, a dissection of a cerebral blood vessel or the bleeding of a vein. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolhealth.com\/2010\/04\/26\/neurosurgeon-bret-michaels-bleeding-likely-from-1-of-3-causes\/?icid=main|main|dl3|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolhealth.com%2F2010%2F04%2F26%2Fneurosurgeon-bret-michaels-bleeding-likely-from-1-of-3-causes%2F\">http:\/\/www.aolhealth.com\/2010\/04\/26\/neurosurgeon-bret-michaels-bleeding-likely-from-1-of-3-causes\/?icid=main|main|dl3|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolhealth.com%2F2010%2F04%2F26%2Fneurosurgeon-bret-michaels-bleeding-likely-from-1-of-3-causes%2F<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0The physician said that \u201cthe most benign\u201d of those three possibilities would be bleeding from a vein. Recovery is a snap. But a dissection or tear of a blood vessel, or an aneurysm, would not bode well for Michaels.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Published reports have said that Michaels has fuzzy vision, dizziness and slurred speech since he was hospitalized late Thursday after getting a agonizing headache. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Michaels is diabetic, and had an emergency appendectomy earlier this month. There was initially some speculation that Michaels\u2019 brain hemorrhage was somehow related to the surgery.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0But in a story in the New York Daily News Tuesday, several doctors dismissed the notion that the surgery could have directly had caused the bleeding in Michaels\u2019 brain.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/lifestyle\/health\/2010\/04\/27\/2010-04-27_doctors_say_it_is_unlikely_that_bret_michaels_emergency_appendectomy_led_to_brai.html\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/lifestyle\/health\/2010\/04\/27\/2010-04-27_doctors_say_it_is_unlikely_that_bret_michaels_emergency_appendectomy_led_to_brai.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0One doctor said that high blood pressure is the most common cause of brain hemorrhages. Another said that Michaels\u2019 may have developed a blood clot in his leg after his surgery and been put on blood thinners, which could have prompted the bleeding in his brain.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0MTV.com turned to a stroke expert about Michaels\u2019 bleeding at the base of his skull. That physician, Dr. Joseph Broderick, said that while the rocker\u2019s condition is serious, it is survivable. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Rocker and reality TV star Bret Michaels remained in an Intensive Care Unit Tuesday under 24-hour surveillance as doctors try to find the source of the bleeding in his brain. 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