Doctors-neurologists quite often in practice meet with various diseases of the nervous system. To date, the number of people with vascular diseases has increased significantly.
A special group includes cerebrovascular diseases that are associated with the pathology of cerebral vessels - atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension. Mortality from hypertension, cerebral vascular disease reaches 11-12% of total mortality in Russia and continues to grow. In the group with the pathology of the cardiovascular system, part of the cerebrovascular diseases is 20-30% among men and 30-40% among females .
The main cause of death in these patients is a stroke. Every year in Russia more than 450 000 people get a stroke. The life of the family of a person who has suffered a stroke is complicated, because he constantly needs help and support from the people living with him. In cerebrovascular disease, cerebral circulation is disturbed, which contributes to the overall severe condition. Here you need an urgent medical event. Changes in the brain with chronic impairment of cerebral circulation develop gradually, usually the patient does not experience symptoms for a long time.
There are three stages of brain damage:
- The first stage - the patient suffers from headaches, heaviness in the head, general weakness, increased fatigue. Also, the mood, memory, attention decreases, dizziness, unsteadiness in walking, sleep disturbed.
- The second stage - increases memory impairment, dizziness and unsteadiness are more common when walking. And as depression and a decrease in intellectual abilities. The disease is progressing.
- The third stage is accompanied by the fact that the patient can not assess his condition, loses his neatness skills. Fainting states, falls, may occur, an epileptic attack may occur. This is the final stage. It is at this time most often encounter complications in the form of a stroke.
The disease significantly reduces the quality of life of the patient.
