Cerebrovascular Diseases

Question 1

<p>What is thrombosis?</p>

Answer 1

<p>a clot that develops in one place and builds up over time</p>

Question 2

<p>What is an embolism?</p>

Answer 2

<p>A clot that came from elsewhere and lodges in a vessel.</p>

Question 3

<p>Which disease is a result of hypotension</p>

Answer 3

<p>Global cerebral ischemia</p>

Question 4

<p>Global cerebral ischemias are most common in what area of the brain?</p>

Answer 4

<p>junctions of two main arteries</p>

Question 5

<p>What do you see on the first day of global ischemia?
After that?
How about two weeks after?</p>

Answer 5

<p>First day: red neurons, neutrophils
Then: Necrosis, macrophages, vascular proliferation, gliosis
After 2 weeks: necrotic loss of tissue</p>

Question 6

<p>Focal cerebral ischemia is oftentimes due to...</p>

Answer 6

<p>Obstruction of blood flow</p>

Question 7

<p>Pale infarcts are due to what?</p>

Answer 7

<p>Ischemia and thrombi</p>

Question 8

<p>Red infarcts are due to what/</p>

Answer 8

<p>emboli and reperfusion</p>

Question 9

<p>What the cause of lacunar infarcts?</p>

Answer 9

<p>Hypertension</p>

Question 10

Slit hemorrhages result from…

Answer 10

Hypertension.