On March 1, Ms. Jiang, 43, from Changsha, repeatedly went to the ophthalmology department due to sudden blurred vision, and after ineffective treatment, she was transferred to Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital (Hunan Second People's Hospital) and diagnosed with "acute cerebral infarction".
After the attending physician of neurology Corinthine gave anti-platelet aggregation, lipid regulation, protection of mitochondrial function, blood activation and stasis, etc., Ms. Jiang's symptoms of blurred vision improved.
What puzzled Ms. Jiang was that she had a normal life pattern, a light diet, went to bed early and got up early, and also paid attention to exercising and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, why she would be found by "acute cerebral infarction" when she was young.
Huang Xiaosong, chief physician of the Department of Neurology, introduced that acute cerebral infarction (stroke) refers to the blood supply disorder in the local brain tissue region caused by various reasons, resulting in ischemia and hypoxic necrosis of brain tissue, which in turn produces clinical corresponding neurological deficit manifestations. Huang Xiaosong introduced that although stroke is more likely to occur in middle-aged and elderly people, in recent years, the incidence of stroke in young people (stroke at the age of 18-44 years old) has increased year by year, although the main reason is related to the poor lifestyle of young people now. For example: smoking, long-term heavy drinking, staying up late, overeating, oral contraceptives, hyperhomocystycinemia and other reasons.
However, there are also a large number of young stroke patients who develop the disease because of other diseases in the body. For example, patent foramen, arrhythmias, valvular heart disease, endocardial lesions, cardiac myx disease, antiphospholipid syndrome, Moyamoya disease, inflammatory arterial disease and other diseases are induced.
Lin Cong reminded that the symptoms of acute cerebral infarction are various, mainly including visual impairment, speech impairment, salivation, dizziness and headache, facial and limb numbness, standing instability, limb mobility disorders and other symptoms, once found one of them should be examined as soon as possible. Lin Cong stressed that doing a good job of stroke screening and forming a healthy lifestyle is the key to reducing the incidence of stroke in young people.
Contributed by: Lin Cong, Third Neuronovascular Zone, Cerebrovascular Disease, Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province (Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital).
Editor: Cheng Jie
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