Hypotension Intracranial

Intracranial hypotension [arithohirpa] (synonym: hypotensive cherexia, hypotensive chryseis; from ancient Greek hypo-, “under” + Greek κρανίων, “skull”; lat. hypothalamus, hypothalmis; further from ancient Greek) - disturbance of intracranial hemodynamics, characterized by a decrease in blood pressure in the systemic and/or pulmonary circulation.

According to WHO, hypertensive hypoxia is one of the leading causes of cerebrovascular accidents. On November 1, 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) united under the term “cerebrovascular disease” (CVD) arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, arrhythmias and other cardiovascular diseases that can lead to hemorrhages, heart attacks and transient ischemic attacks in the human brain. This concept was recognized as official at the World Health Assembly in Nairobi. The organization decided to include the wording of the World Federation of Neurology in its new definition K-189.9 “Cerebral infarction and transient cerebral vascular episodes of unspecified etiology”: