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.
Helms
Ann K
AK
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Torbey
Michel T
MT
Almassi
G Hossein
GH
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