What Is Cerebrovascular Accident?
3. Ischemic Stroke
The other type of stroke that can be experience is an ischemic stroke. This happens when a blood vessel is blocked, preventing blood from flowing to the brain. This is the most commonly encountered type of stoke. Ischemic strokes can be broken down into two further categories.
One is a thrombotic stroke, which means the flow of blood is being blocked by a blood clot in the brain. The other is an embolic stroke which means the clot forms elsewhere in the body and becomes dislodged. The clot can then travel through the circulatory system until it becomes lodged in another blood vessel, blocking the flow.
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