A stroke is a blockage in blood flow to the brain. It can cause permanent brain damage or death if you don't treat it quickly. Learn the signs of a stroke, such as sudden weakness, vision loss, and trouble speaking. Doctors treat a stroke with medicines to break up clots and procedure...
Learn the signs of a stroke, such as sudden weakness, vision loss, and trouble speaking. Doctors treat a stroke with medicines to break up clots and procedures to remove the blockage. You can prevent a stroke by knowing your risk factors and working with your doctor to control them. Stroke...
Sometimes vision issues do not originate in the eye but instead deeper in the brain. This is why having a stroke can cause vision disturbances.
A person who has a stroke that causes vision loss is often told there is nothing she can do to improve or regain the vision she has lost. New research from the University of Rochester, published in the journalBrain, may offer hope to stroke patients in regaining vision. The Rochester team...
Vision problems:The patient may develop difficulty with vision, such as double vision, loss of peripheral (side) vision, orblindness. (Blurred vision by itself is not usually a symptom of stroke.) Sudden headache:A sudden, severe headachemay strike like "a bolt out of the blue." ...
visual disturbance, including sudden loss of vision difficulty walking, including staggering or veering coordination problems in the arms and hands slurred speech or inability to speak sudden deviation of the eyes toward one direction seizures irregular breathing stupor coma.The sudden appearance of one...
Care guide for Stroke. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Another type of vision loss that can occur if the injury is after the optic chiasm ishomonymous quadrantanopia. This is vision loss in the upper or lower quarter of the visual field. READ MORE:Hemianopia: Types, causes, symptoms and treatment ...
If the stroke occurs in the right side of the brain, the left side of the body will be affected. In that case, additional symptoms may include vision problems and memory loss. In addition, if the stroke occurs in the brain stem, or the central trunk of the brain, a person may be le...
One may have psychological and sensory difficulties like tingling, numbness, impaired sight, double vision, memory loss and difficulty controlling emotions (x). Causes of Stroke Obesity and Diabetes Losing weight can significantly lower the levels of blood pressure and stroke. Being overweight puts you...