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Focal cerebral ischemia (FCI) is often results from a blood clot in the brain. The blood flow in the affected area is reduced. The reduction could be severe or mild but usually FCI causes irreversible injury to sensitive neurons.
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∙ 15y agoCerebral ischemia is a condition where the brain or parts of the brain do not receive enough blood-flow to maintain normal neurological function. http://www.answers.com/topic/ischemia
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∙ 13y agoMost blockages in the cerebral arteries are due to a blood clot, often in an artery narrowed by plaque. Sometimes, a blood clot in the heart or aorta travels to a cerebral artery.
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How do you use ischemia in a sentence?
ischemia is a result of hypoxia. hypoxia means low oxygen in the heart.
How do you describe symptomatic ischemia?
Symptomatic ischemia is characterized by chest pain called angina pectoris.
What are the causes of silent ischemia?
Silent ischemia usually is caused by emotional or mental stress or by exertion, but there are no symptoms.
What is inferoapical ischemia?
Inferoapical ischemia is lack of blood flow below the apex.
What is the difference between hypoxia and ischemia?
simply, Hypoxia is less oxygen supply to cell tissues, while the Ischemia is less blood supply to cell issues.
How many categories of cerebral hypoxia are there?
There are four categories of cerebral hypoxia; in order of severity they are: diffuse cerebral hypoxia (DCH), focal cerebral ischemia, cerebral infarction, and global cerebral ischemia.
What causes global ceregral ischemia?
Global cerebral ischemia (GCI) is a serious condition caused by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac asystole, which stops all blood flow to the brain.
What is the medical term meaning temporary lack of blood to the head?
cerebral ischemia = insufficient blood to the brain
When did Leonardo Cortese die?
Leonardo Cortese died on October 21, 1984, in Rome, Lazio, Italy of cerebral ischemia.
When did Cesare Barbetti die?
Cesare Barbetti died on September 13, 2006, in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy of cerebral ischemia.
When did Frederick Worlock die?
Frederick Worlock died on August 1, 1973, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA of cerebral ischemia.
When did Abelardo Figueiredo die?
Abelardo Figueiredo died on February 13, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil of cerebral ischemia.
When did Henriette Morineau die?
Henriette Morineau died on December 3, 1990, in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil of cerebral ischemia.
What is a cerebral edema?
Cerebral edema is basically a swelling of the brain, which increases pressure within the skull. This can be the result of a closed-head trauma, or an infection of the brain or brain stem. Not to be confused with a hematoma, which also exerts pressure on the brain due to intracranial bleeding.
What is the medical term for pertaining to death of tissue?
angina pectoris meanind a syndrome characterized by paroxysmal, constricting pain below the sternum, most easily precipitated byexertion or excitement and caused by ischemia of the heart muscle, usually due to a coronary arterydisease, as arteriosclerosis
What is the term for decreased blood flow?
Ischemia is the medical term for decreased blood flow. Ischemia limits the supply of oxygen to tissues.
What is recommended treatment for anterior wall ischemia -?
Anterior wall ischemia
