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How A Cerebral Stroke Can Be Determined?
How a cerebral stroke can be determined?? is an MRI of brain totally necessary or it can be diagnosed with a Ct scan?? My sister 87 yrs old with Alzheimer... drop her head was irresponsive for about 10 mts... fire rescue said blood pressure very low.... (she is hypertensive and takes meds for that for many years).. was taken to hosp a ct was done and they said has to be admitted to hosp for MRI of brain tomorrow to r/o stroke. She is talking like before and recognized her daughter and is no dizziness, or vomiting or nothing else. Please clarify this issue for me... thank you I do not think she needs hospitalization or mri
Sat, 12 Apr 2014
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your sister's symptoms.
The most likely diagnostic possibilities are syncope or transient ischemic attack (TIA).
Sometimes, small brain strokes (lacunar infarcts) are not seen on CT, but can get picked up on an MRI brain. Having said that, hospitalisation is not needed to do an MRI, as it takes about 30 minutes to do it and is a non-invasive procedure.
In syncope, due to low blood pressure, the blood flow to brain reduces for a while, leading to loss of consciousness.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your sister's symptoms.
The most likely diagnostic possibilities are syncope or transient ischemic attack (TIA).
Sometimes, small brain strokes (lacunar infarcts) are not seen on CT, but can get picked up on an MRI brain. Having said that, hospitalisation is not needed to do an MRI, as it takes about 30 minutes to do it and is a non-invasive procedure.
In syncope, due to low blood pressure, the blood flow to brain reduces for a while, leading to loss of consciousness.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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