Twins strokes at 26: Twins have same stroke, The strokes that 26-year-old twins Kathryn and Kimberly Tucker experienced just nine months from each other and on opposite sides of their brain has their doctors puzzled.
Both twin girls suffered a stroke on opposite sides of the occipital lobe, which sends visual input from the brain to the retinas.
Dr. Joni Clark, a vascular neurologist at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix said about the twins’ strokes at an early age of 26 that, "honestly, it's rare for us to actually evaluate two sisters who've had strokes within months of each other. If they had a family history, it would not be a surprise. It's quite uncommon."
The twin girls are fraternal twins and thus do not share the same DNA. They have no family history of stroke or any other genetic heritage that would have contributed to experiencing the same stroke within nine months.
In July of 2012, one of the 26-year-old twin girls, Kathryn Tucker, had just gone to bed in her apartment in Tempe, Ariz., when she felt a sharp pain on the right side of the back of her head. Then her vision went out and she went numb. Her brother rushed the twin girl to the hospital. Doctors initially thought that the 26-year-old twin girl had a migraine and sent her home without any medical intervention.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Twins strokes at 26: Twins have same stroke
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