Sentences with phrase «brain infarcts»

Aphasia owing to subcortical brain infarcts in childhood.

In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.

According to a new study, high long - chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content in blood may lower the risk of small brain infarcts and other brain abnormalities in the elderly.

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Studies at autopsy of people who had dementia have detected many of these so - called microvascular infarcts either by themselves or along with the plaques and tangles more typical of Alzheimer's in the brains of people with dementia.

The people who were aspirin resistant also had larger areas of the brain affected by the stroke, as measured by MRI diffusion weighted imaging, with infarct size of 2.8 cc compared to 1.6 cc for those who responded to aspirin.

Infarcts (blood clotting leading to lack of circulation in part of the brain) occur in some dogs.