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

< i > Emergency Response to Stroke -- The Neural Pathophysiology of Stroke

With rare exceptions, ischemic stroke is caused by the sudden occlusion of a blood vessel supplying the brain, either by thrombosis in situ, or more often, by an embolus.

Emboli originate in the heart or at sites of necrosis and thrombosis within unstable atheroma.

I will focus on the events in the anterior circulation, since they are quite representative.