Taking a Look at a Cerbrovascular Accident

Cerbrovascular Accident ( CVA)

It was a very exiting day of my live when I went to BODY World EXHIBIT, August 8,2013.

As student studying anatomy and physiology it was very appropriate to realize that the human body

Is amazing group of systems working together to maintain our homeostasis. I wanted to get the op-

Opportunity to focus since is the first part of body. I learned a lot of information about that center.

Our brain is generally programmed to the nerves cells branches that create connections from

Pathways, generated from one point to the others, most the time to endocrine system, either gland

Or messenger glands. Just as our bodies need regular exercise, our brain requires challenges. As we

Aging we can get many kind from that wonderful gift. One of them call cerebrovaslar(stroke)

Etiology/pathophysiology

Many underlying factors can contribute for someone to have a stroke; these including not limited to:artherosclerosis,(harding of the arteries) commonly from fat consummation, heart disease (generally) hypertension(high blood pressure), kidney disease, peripheral vascular disease, and diabetes mellitus. Cerebrovaslar accident is an abnormal condition of the blood vessels of the brain, characterized by occlusion , an embolus ,or hemorrhage, resulting of a lack of blood supply in the brain tissues (ischemia) normally perfused by the damage vessels. CVA (orstroke) is the most common disease of the nervous system and Is ranked as the third leading cause of death in the United Stated., with About 200,000 deaths annually. According to Foundation of Nursing by Barbara Christensen/Elaine Kockrow( second Edition) Strokes affect persons in all age

Groups, But the greatest number of persons are between 75 and 8...

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...f laughing or crying with little or no provocation. While these expressions of emotion usually correspond to the patient's actual emotions, a more severe form of emotional liability causes patients to laugh and cry pathologically, without regard to context or emotion. Emotional lability occurs in about 20% of stroke patients.

Cognitive deficits resulting from stroke include perceptual disorders, speech problems, dementia, and problems with attention and memory. A stroke sufferer may be unaware of his or her own disabilities, a condition called anosognosia. In a condition called hemi spatial neglect, a patient is unable to attend to anything on the side of space opposite to the damaged hemisphere.

Up to 10% of all stroke patients develop seizures, most commonly in the week subsequent to the event; the severity of the stroke increases the likelihood of a seizure.