Monday, November 22, 2010

Hypertension and Lacunar stroke!

I would like to focus on hypertension-inducing brain stroke. There is always a chance of initiating brain stroke, suffering from malignant hypertension (MHTN). In the chronic stage (MHTN), there might be infarction of deep-brain structures, which is called lacunar stroke. Usually, deep structures of the brain are mostly involved in lacunar stroke, which is caused by the blockage of small arteries of deep brain.
Once this lacunar stroke is developed, it might be symptomless or mild symptoms are pronounced such as mild loss of sensation in the face, limbs or other parts of the body (sensory symptoms). MRI imaging method is useful to find out the lacunar stroke related deep brain lesions among the patients suffering from MHTN. However, it is useful to control chronic hypertension (MHTN) to prevent from lacular stroke.

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