Cerebrovascular Diseases in the Aged

Cerebrovascular Disease in Rheumatic Diseases

Thermography in occlusive cerebrovascular diseases.

Cooling of the skin over the medial supraorbital region in 80% of patients who have an occlusion or severe stenosis of a carotid artery can be demonstrated by facial thermography. Minor stenotic lesions in the carotid arteries do not produce characteristic thermographic changes, while thermography is of no help in the diagnosis of vertebrobasilar arterial disease.Thermographic changes suggestiv...

Symposium on Cerebrovascular Diseases

The treatment of acute ischemic stroke has evolved from observation and the passage of time dictating outcome to an approach that emphasizes time from ictus, rapid response, and a dedicated treatment team. We review the treatment of acute ischemic stroke from the prehospital setting, to the emergency department, to the inpatient hospital setting. We discuss the importance of prehospital assessm...

Cerebrovascular accident in the aged: changes in family relations.

The aims of this study were: to identify aged persons who were victims of Cerebrovascular Accident and received care at the Emergency Unit of a Public Hospital in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil, and their respective families, as well as to identify the changes in family relations that occurred after the event. In order to identify these changes, the adapted Critical Incident Technique was used, whil...

Cerebrovascular Diseases: Perspectives for the Next Decade

This issue of The Open Neurology Journal addresses with six manuscripts emerging risk factors for cerebrovascular diseases. Even being in the ‘post thrombolysis era’, stroke remains a major cause of death and disability. This is true not only in industrialized but also for developing countries where the burden of stroke is more and more increasing. This is also demonstrated by the growing inter...