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What Does Chronic Micro Vascular Infarcts Indicate?

What is chronic microvascular infarcts or old lacunar infarct.I'm 61 years old 5'6 238 pd. and a history of everything t3 t4 of my spine the spinal cord is flatten and there is a cyst and fluid . Afib heart blood disorder, missing factor 5 homocystinemy i think that is spelled wrong .diabetic type 2 high bloodpressure high closles.to name a few.
Tue, 1 Jul 2014
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Chronic microvascular infarcts or old lacunar infarct are related to ischemic changes resulting from involvement of small blood vessels.
Ischemic changes resulting from blood vessels changes in diseases like hypertension,diabetes mellitus,dyslipidemia.
So,you need monitoring of conditions that leads to ischemic changes like hypertension,altered lipid profile,diabetes mellitus so that further progression of disease can be halted.
You need investigations like routine hemogram,RBS,LFT,RFT,Lipid profile,ultrasound of abdomen.
Proper treatment depend upon findings.

Hope i have answered your query.
Take Care
Dr.Indu Bhushan
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What Does Chronic Micro Vascular Infarcts Indicate?

Hello Thanks for writing to HCM Chronic microvascular infarcts or old lacunar infarct are related to ischemic changes resulting from involvement of small blood vessels. Ischemic changes resulting from blood vessels changes in diseases like hypertension,diabetes mellitus,dyslipidemia. So,you need monitoring of conditions that leads to ischemic changes like hypertension,altered lipid profile,diabetes mellitus so that further progression of disease can be halted. You need investigations like routine hemogram,RBS,LFT,RFT,Lipid profile,ultrasound of abdomen. Proper treatment depend upon findings. Hope i have answered your query. Take Care Dr.Indu Bhushan