Sentences with phrase «brain infarction»

I guess from brain infarction.

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While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

Merkler plans to study the connections between retinal infarction and stroke using brain magnetic resonance imaging tests to see what's happening.

J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.

1,680 strokes were documented: 1,310 ischemic strokes / cerebral infarctions (due to blockages), 79 subarachnoid hemorrhages (due to bleeding on the brain surface), 154 intracerebral hemorrhages (due to bleeding in the brain), as well as 137 unspecified strokes.

They develop severe atherosclerosis in the arteries of their heart and brain and usually die in their 30's and 40's of myocardial infarctions and strokes.

Interestingly, garlic slashed brain «infarction», when the brain cells get starved of oxygen and die, by a staggering 54.8 %.