Clinical and pathogenetical features of ischemic stroke of young age
: A clinico-instrumental study of 78 young patients (mean age 41.3 +/- 4.2 years) with ischemic stroke was carried out. A prevalence of such risk factors as severe arterial hypertension, innate and acquired heart valvular disease, familial loading were characteristic of these patients, while ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus occurred less often. Comparing to elderly patients, no significant differences in dynamics of neurological deficit were found in young patients with ischemic stroke. The data of neuroimaging examination indicated less frequency of the signs of cerebral atrophy and leucoareosis in young patients. The results obtained confirm the presence of modifying risk factors for ischemic stroke in young patients that grounds realization of preventive measures.