Cerebral crisis

Crises can occur in any person, but older people, as well as patients with cerebrosclerosis and atherosclerosis, are more susceptible to them. Typically, crises begin acutely, at night, with a sharp rise in temperature to 38-39 degrees, severe headache, palpitations, high blood pressure (arterial crisis), convulsions and loss of consciousness. At the moment of occurrence, signs of a crisis are associated with increased permeability of the walls of blood vessels, which leads to the release of blood plasma from the vessels into the surrounding tissues, followed by the development of edema and swelling of the brain and hemorrhages into the brain substance or under the membranes. Therefore, the types of cerebrovascular crises are distinguished: arteriosclerotic, hemodynamic and vascular-pulsatory. Arterio