Is it a stroke or not cat scan of brain showed nothing but doctors say you had a cva?

Answer 1

Ischemic strokes and CVAs (cerebrovascular accidents) are caused by the same thing - a lack of blood flow to a part of the brain. The difference is one of duration. In an ischemic stroke, the blood flow loss is permanent or semi-permanent, causing a permanent or semi-permanent loss of function in the part of the body that is served by the part of the brain affected. In a CVA, however, the blood flow loss is temporary, so the loss of function in the area of the body served by the part of the brain that was robbed of blood flow is also temporary, and usually resolves in 24 hours or so. Another difference between the two is that ischemic strokes are usually visible on CT scan and CVAs are not. Often, physicians will use this difference before the 24-48 hour period is up so that they can know whether they should think about initiating "clot-buster" drugs. They also need to know so that they can either prepare the patient and family members for the consequences of stroke, or, as in your case, apparently, reassure the patient and family that the symptoms should resolve completely in 1-2 days. Regardless, you should be followed closely by a doctor for several months and should be started on appropriate medications to treat your cerebrovascular disease (CVD), the name of the condition that causes people to have either CVAs or strokes.