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What Does Occipetal Lobe Infarction Mean?

Chronic infarcts in left occipital lobe,left basalgangila and corona radiata-multiinfract state.chronic ischemic changes in bilateral corona radiata and centrum semiovale.--this is problem sir..my grand father age is 69...weight-52kg..bp-170/190...rbs-103...sir can u say what the problem and what happens...
Tue, 7 Oct 2014
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That means that those areas of the brain have been damaged due to interruption of blood supply to them. The distributions of those lesions makes me think of widespread damage of blood vessels' walls, a process which has evolved over many years. It can be due to many factors, you mention one of them which is high blood pressure, other common factors are diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol.
While there is not much you can do to reverse these infarcts, you should address and treat those risk factors in order to prevent or at least slow down further involvement of other areas. Also he should be started on aspirin.
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What Does Occipetal Lobe Infarction Mean?

That means that those areas of the brain have been damaged due to interruption of blood supply to them. The distributions of those lesions makes me think of widespread damage of blood vessels walls, a process which has evolved over many years. It can be due to many factors, you mention one of them which is high blood pressure, other common factors are diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol. While there is not much you can do to reverse these infarcts, you should address and treat those risk factors in order to prevent or at least slow down further involvement of other areas. Also he should be started on aspirin.