PRINCESS Margaret's left side has been affected by her recent minor stroke, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
noticeable effects. For example, if the affected area is responsible for speech, an individual’s words may be slurred. If the stroke affects a part of the brain that controls muscle movement, it can cause weakness, often just on
noticeable effects. For example, if the affected area is responsible for speech, an individual’s words may be slurred. If the stroke affects a part of the brain that controls muscle movement, it can cause weakness, often just on
A stroke only affects part of your brain, and different areas of your brain control different things. So the effects of a stroke depend on how bad it is and what part of your brain it happens in. Your symptoms may help your doctor figure out where in your brain the stroke happened. Ea...
Weakness of the arm, the leg, or both is a common stroke symptom. When a stroke causes physical weakness of the extremities, it typically affects only one side of the body.3 You may notice partial weakness, which means that you do not have full strength, or complete weakness to the poin...
CAA affects small vessels but is considered separately as a more important cause of ICH than ischaemic stroke (see below). CSVD is diagnosed on the basis of radiological markers, including: recent small subcortical infarcts, white matter hyperintensities, lacunes, cerebral microbleeds, enlarged ...
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affects the ability to recognize sounds, for example. To do this, Hartwigsen and her team used a simple decision task. The participants heard the word "cat" and had to decide whether it consisted of one or two syllables. The individual impairment predicted the activation on the right side....
any proximal source, commonly from the heart. Occasionally, the source may be from the right side of the circulation, going through a right-to-left shunt, such as a patent foramen ovale, towards the cerebral arterial system. The etiology of stroke affects both prognosis and outcomes.[3][4]...
Heart failure affects approximately 6 million Americans and the prevalence is expected to increase markedly as the population ages [42]. Previous reports have estimated heart failure to be present in 10–24% of patients with stroke but is only attributed as the cause in 9% [43, 44]. This ...