Health Management for Older Adults III - Emergency Response to Stroke -- The Neural Pathophysiology of Stroke

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The sequence of events I have just outlined leads us to a number of logical and now well-substantiated conclusions.

First, internal carotid artery stenosis is important not because the stenosis is hemodynamically significant, but only insofar as the atheromatous lesion causing the stenosis leads to the formation of clot.
Second, while stroke corresponds to a discreet thromboembolic event, infarction is clearly an evolutionary process that proceeds at varying speeds, depending upon the adequacy of collateral blood flow.