Metrus, MDA cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a medical term that refers to types of strokes. In a CVA, blood flow to the brain is interrupted. Signs of a CVA may include weakness, numbness, confusion ...

What you don’t know about stroke Stroke can come out of the blue, even in people who have been healthy all their lives.

Stroke is the 5th-leading cause of death in the U.S. and a leading cause of severe disability. On average, a person dies from ...

Ischemic stroke is a fatal condition caused by an arterial embolism that blocks the blood flow through the cerebral artery, frequently being a cause of mortality and disability. Fibroblast growth ...

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This suggests that, in the acute phase of stroke, hypertension represents a compensatory mechanism to maintain cerebral perfusion, which is associated with poor outcome when it fails. It is ...

The research team from the National Cerebral and ... spontaneous vertebral artery dissection (sVAD), a rupture of a blood vessel in the back of the neck that causes a stroke, with patients ...