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Dr. Teeple earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his internship in internal medicine at the University of Arizona. He completed a residency in neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute where he served as chief resident. He has also completed a fellowship in Epilepsy at the Barrow Neurological Institute.

Dr. Teeple is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both neurology and neurophysiology. He has been with the Center for Neurosciences since 2008. He is also the Director of the Stroke Care Program at Tucson Medical Center.

Education

  • MD: Columbia University College Of Physicians And Surgeons

  • Internship: University of Arizona

  • Residency/Fellowship: Barrow Neurological Institute

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both neurology and neurophysiology

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Stroke – Latest Research

The latest research on stroke has actually probably revolved around the intraarterial treatment or your interventional treatment of stroke. Although there’s a few areas we can talk about. With respect to interarterial treatment of stroke,...

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Stroke – tPA Latest Research

On top of that, we’re always looking for other ways to more quickly detect stroke, to get someone tpa faster. And one of the really neat things that’s been coming out there, and it’s still...

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Stroke – Atrial Fibrillation – Medication

With A-fib, there are four major drugs that we can choose as far as prevention. These are very effective drugs, clearly better than things like aspirin. These are strong blood thinners. The four drugs are...

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Stroke – Medication

As we move up, so then if we’re looking at other types of strokes beyond a fib and carotid stenosis, generally the approach is a multi sort of pronged approach. One, it’s some type of...

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Stroke – Carotid Stenosis Treatment

As we move up from the heart, we move up into the carotid arteries and we think about carotid stenosis. And this is something that can be treated medically with aggressive risk factor control, blood...

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Stroke – Hemorrhagic Stroke Definition

The second type of stroke is something called a hemorrhagic stroke or a brain hemorrhage. With a hemorrhagic stroke, which is much less common than the ischemic type of blood vessel within the brain actually...

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Stroke – Treatment 3-4 hours

If someone comes in at between three and four and half hours, I would generally expect that the hospital’s going to be a little bit more cautious. And the big issue that we worry about...

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Stroke – Immediate Treatment

For treatment of an acute stroke, a stroke that has just happened, there is one drug that’s been FDA approved called TPA or tissue plasminogen activator. That’s a drug that right now it can only...

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Stroke – Treatment Summary

So in summary, treatment for acute stroke, intravenous TPA and club buster, there is something called intraarterial treatment that can be given to a certain subset of patients that most stroke centers here in Tucson...

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Stroke – Having a Stroke

When someone has a stroke, I emphasize this, it is crucial to get into the hospital. Let’s talk about sort of what to expect once you’re in the hospital. The first thing I would point...

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