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What is a stroke ?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

what is strokeA stroke or stroke (in the popularly known attack called) occurs when the blood flow in one part of the brains is interrupted by a clot or a hemorrhage. This gives some brain cells to low oxygen so they can die.

In 80% of the cases the blood vessel by a clot silting. We speak of a cerebral infarction. In the remaining 20% is a blood vessel that ruptures, allowing blood accumulates in the brains. Here we speak of a brain hemorrhage. The nature and severity of the symptoms are highly dependent on the location, size and cause of the infarction or bleeding.

Possible symptoms
may include:

* Sudden paralysis of a limb or power reduction or a complete body part
* Skew of the mouth
* Not speak understandable
* Difficult or blurred vision, double vision (more…)

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