Acute Cerebral Infarction And Treatments

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), acute cerebral infarction is the 3rd leading cause of death in the world after cardiovascular disease and cancer. This is also the disease causing the highest disability in adults, making them a burden for the family and society.
What is acute cerebral infarction?
A cerebral infarction, also known as cerebral embolism, is a form of stroke, which occurs when an area of the brain is not getting enough blood due to a narrowing or blockage of a brain artery or due to hypotension. . The part of the brain that stops supplying blood is called brain ischemia and the area where the brain is killed by this lack of blood supply is called a cerebral infarction

. Patients with acute cerebral infarction are at risk of rapid death and experience severe sequelae that are difficult to recover.
Causes of acute cerebral infarction
There are many causes of cerebral infarction such as atherosclerosis of large blood vessels, clogging of small blood vessels in the brain. In addition, heart diseases that cause blood clots such as valvular heart disease, atrial fibrillation, non-atherosclerotic disease and blood diseases can also cause cerebral infarction
Besides, the common risk factors are smoking, waterpipe tobacco, inhaling a lot of cigarette smoke; eat more foods containing cholesterol, eat less vegetables, eat too salty, too sweet; people with hypertension; high blood sugar; people who are less physically active or have family members with atherosclerosis; polluted living environment .



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Symptoms of acute cerebral infarction
The symptoms of a cerebral infarction vary greatly, depending on the extent of the lesion as well as the location of the affected brain area, patients often experience the following symptoms:
- Headache: Severe, sudden headache with unexplained causes accompanied by other symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest tightness, unsteady walking, lightheadedness, blurred vision. slamming your face,
- Hemiplegia: The patient's body is often very weak, feeling lethargic or paralyzed, unable to coordinate the physical activities.
- Distorted mouth, facial paralysis, difficulty speaking or lisp even unable to speak, vomiting, drooling mouth.
- Conscious disorders, memory impairment, confusion, unrecognizable surroundings. There are signs of seizures, urinary incontinence or lethargy
Treatment of patients with acute cerebral infarction
The treatment of acute cerebral infarction is difficult and complicated, patients need to be admitted to the emergency room immediately and closely monitor the progress of the disease, active treatment to quickly recover.




- When giving emergency services, patients are allowed to carry out tests, brain scans, accurately assess and diagnose infarction to use appropriate treatment to help dissolve blood clots, restore clogged blood vessels, regions brain damage or restriction causes nerve cell death, helping patients recover.
- Patients should be emergency for timely factors affecting life functions such as high fever, hypertension, high blood sugar ...
- Prevention and treatment of medical complications such as swallowing, causing pneumonia, respiratory infections, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, infections, secondary bleeding, cerebral edema jerking, ulcer caused by paralysis ...
Prevention of cerebral infarction
The best way to prevent the disease is early detection and active treatment of risk factors for cerebral infarction such as hypertension, diabetes, heart rhythm disorders, valvular heart disease.




Eat a healthy diet like increasing fiber-rich foods, reducing salty foods and foods high in cholesterol; limit alcohol, prevent overweight, obesity ...
Exercise every day, quit smoking, pipe tobacco; Avoid stress, anxiety and physical and mental ... will help you prevent cerebral infarction effectively.
Take medication as directed by your doctor to prevent the formation of atheroma, cholesterol-lowering drugs, antihypertensives, etc.




When appearing one of the above symptoms, patients should be taken to the nearest medical facility immediately for emergency treatment in order to avoid the worst possible complications. Absolutely do not let patients at home to perform folk first aid measures such as shaving the wind, squeezing blood, giving injections ... will be very dangerous.
As one of the private hospitals with top quality service, a professional and friendly medical environment, Hopital General Hospital with a team of experienced cardiologists with good professional expertise and facilities The most modern treatment effectively helps many patients with cerebral infarction to keep them fit to life..

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