Determinants of mortality in stroke patients with right brain damage.
Stroke is the world's second leading cause of mortality and long-term disability. Damage to the nondominant right brain has distinct clinical characteristics. The resultant cardiovascular and autonomic dysfunction peculiar to right hemispheric stroke can adversely affect the short- and long-term outcome of stroke victims. Blood flow characteristics to the right hemisphere may also put the right brain at more risk for embolic and silent infarcts.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Ann K
AK
Helms
Michel T
MT
Torbey
G Hossein
GH
Almassi
D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D015982:Bias; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D020521:Stroke / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology