Deans' stroke musings: Carotid artery calcification score and its association with cognitive impairment

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Carotid artery calcification score and its association with cognitive impairment

I assume my calcification score would be off the charts since my right carotid artery is completely blocked. I don't think I'm cognitively impaired, but then if I truly am cognitively impaired I would think I'm ok. Being so stupid you don't realize you are stupid. Oh well, I'm happy in my stupidity and stroke impairments.

Carotid artery calcification score and its association with cognitive impairment

Clinical Interventions in Aging — Chu Z, et al. | January 22, 2019

In carotid artery stenosis (CAS) patients, researchers retrospectively examined the possible relationship between carotid artery calcification score (CS) and cognitive impairment. Using Color Doppler ultrasound, multi-detector row spiral CT angiography and MRI scanning, carotid artery was measured in 102 patients with cervical carotid arteries. A significant correlation was found between carotid artery CSs and cognitive scores, making CS a possible risk factor for early screening of cognitive impairment in CAS patients. The possible mechanism could be linked to the effect of the calcification on the plaque burden.

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