Does asymptomatic cerebral infarction need treatment?

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Silent cerebral infarction, also known as static cerebral infarction, is a special type of cerebral infarction. It is generally believed that elderly patients have no history of cerebral infarction, no conscious symptoms of nervous system in clinic, no signs of nervous system localization in nervous system physical examination, and cerebral infarction lesions found in brain CT scan and brain MRI examination, which is clinically called asymptomatic cerebral infarction. Asymptomatic cerebral infarction generally has a good prognosis. But because it can exist alone, and has the possibility of symptomatic cerebral infarction in the future. Therefore, the prognosis of patients is related to the prognosis of primary disease and secondary symptomatic cerebral infarction. Does asymptomatic cerebral infarction need treatment? Let's talk about it

Does asymptomatic cerebral infarction need treatment?

Asymptomatic cerebral infarction is not what symptoms are not. According to careful medical history, most patients are symptomatic, such as headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, memory loss, sleep disorders, head trauma peripheral facial paralysis, trigeminal neuralgia, mental disorders, etc., among which headache and dizziness are the highest incidence rate.

Although asymptomatic cerebral infarction does not cause definite neurological symptoms and signs, it may cause or aggravate depression or mental retardation. With the increase of age and the course of hypertension, the incidence of depression increased. Therefore, for the elderly, especially those with history of hypertension, diabetes and heart disease, attention should be paid to the occurrence of depressive symptoms, and imaging examination should be carried out when necessary.

Asymptomatic cerebral infarction can exist alone, and symptomatic cerebral infarction may occur later. The existence of asymptomatic cerebral infarction may aggravate the condition of symptomatic cerebral infarction and increase the risk of recurrence of cerebral infarction. Therefore, early diagnosis and active prevention are of great significance.

matters needing attention

General treatment attention to rest, pay attention to the balance of water and electrolyte, diet to low fat, low calorie, low salt diet, and have enough high quality protein, vitamins, cellulose and trace elements. Eating too much is not conducive to health, pay attention to eliminate the tension of patients, it is best to let patients understand the condition, in order to cooperate with the treatment.