What is Cerebrovascular Disease? How Blood Flow to the Brain?
What are Cerebrovascular Diagnostic Tests?
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👍What is
#Cerebrovascular Disease?
The word #cerebrovascular is made up of two parts – "cerebro" which refers to the large part of the brain, and "vascular" which means arteries and veins. Together, the word cerebrovascular refers to blood flow in the
#brain. The term #cerebrovascular disease includes all disorders in which an area of the brain is temporarily or permanently affected by ischemia or bleeding and one or more of the cerebral blood vessels are involved in the
#pathological process. #Cerebrovascular disease includes
#stroke,
#carotid stenosis, vertebral
#stenosis and intracranial stenosis,
#aneurysms, and
#vascular malformations.
👉💁♀️👍Blood Flow to the #Brain?
The heart pumps blood up to the #brain through two sets of arteries, the #carotid arteries and the
#vertebral arteries. The carotid arteries are located in the front of the neck and are what you feel when you take your pulse just under your jaw. The carotid arteries split into the external and internal arteries near the top of the
#neck with the external carotid arteries supplying blood to the face and the internal #carotid arteries going into the skull. Inside the skull, the internal #carotid arteries branch into two large arteries – the anterior cerebral and middle
#cerebral arteries and several smaller arteries – the ophthalmic, posterior communicating and anterior
#choroidal arteries. These arteries supply blood to the front two-thirds of the #brain.
