Contents:
- Medical Video: High Blood Pressure Stroke Risk
- Uncontrolled hypertension, the cause of the stroke that is quietly deadly
- Symptoms of high blood pressure that can risk stroke
- How to diagnose the risk of stroke due to hypertension
- How to handle it?
Medical Video: High Blood Pressure Stroke Risk
High blood pressure should not be underestimated. Hypertension is often referred to the silent killer aka killer in silence because this disease generally shows no symptoms until it's really late. High blood pressure is one of the causes of a stroke that is often missed. About 80% of cases of hemorrhagic stroke occur due to hypertension that is not treated properly.
Uncontrolled hypertension, the cause of the stroke that is quietly deadly
High blood pressure that is left alone will damage the blood vessels. Over time, hypertension can cause hardening and thickening of the arteries of the arteries. This condition is called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis causes blockage of blood vessels, including blood vessels in the brain.
The cause of stroke in people who have hypertension is a blocked blood vessel that suddenly ruptures due to continuous receiving of high pressure blood flow. As a result, the brain becomes flooded by blood. The part of the brain most commonly affected by this bleeding is the basal ganglia, thalamus, and cerebellum. Stroke caused by rupture of blood vessels in the brain is called a hemorrhagic stroke.
In some cases, the bleeding can be so severe that it spills into the ventricles of the brain and triggers life-threatening hydrocephalus.
Symptoms of high blood pressure that can risk stroke
Symptoms of hemorrhagic stroke caused by hypertension can vary,depending on the location of the broken blood vessels and how severe the bleeding is.
Common symptoms include:
- Weakness on the face, arms and legs on one side of the body
- Numbness of the face, arms or legs on one side of the body
- Decreased ability to understand spoken or spoken languages
- Difficulty writing or reading
- Vertigo, with or without nausea and vomiting
- Severe headaches
- Having double vision
In rare cases, severe cerebral hemorrhage can lead to a drastic increase in intracranial pressure which causes the person to be unresponsive, paralyzed, or even comatose.
Even so, just seeing the symptoms is not enough to find out if the cause of your stroke is due to hypertension or other conditions. This is the importance of seeing a doctor as soon as possible as soon as you begin to suspect or experience symptoms.
How to diagnose the risk of stroke due to hypertension
You must immediately come to the emergency room of the nearest hospital once you experience symptoms of a stroke. There, doctors can conduct a series of emergency tests to detect bleeding in the brain. A CT scan is the first test to be conducted to find out the cause.
When the CT scan results cannot explain the doctor why, he will do the testothers such as cerebral angiogram or brain MRI. This test helps diagnose other causes of bleeding such as arterial malformations (AVM), aneurysms,amyloid angiopathy, even brain tumors.
How to handle it?
After carrying out a series of tests upon arrival at the ER, the doctor willtake you to the intensive care unit (ICU) to stabilize the condition so that there is no further bleeding and monitor the progress of your blood pressure.
The therapeutic step and treatment will then be based on how much bleeding occurs and how severe the symptoms you show. In some cases, brain hemorrhage must be quickly treated through surgery.
In people who have suffered severe brain damage that cannot be operated on, the necessary care will be includeduse of mechanical ventilation, implantation of ICP monitors, or temporary or permanent installation of food hoses.
