Diabetes - cerebrovascular disease

Cerebrovascular disease is not specific to diabetes, but diabetes, especially poorly controlled diabetes, cerebral vascular disease caused by one of the important reasons. Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease in patients with diabetes than non-high-4 ~ 10 times. Cerebral vascular disease caused by diabetes in patients with the problem of disability and death.

Diabetes and cerebrovascular pathology major change is atherosclerosis. In diabetic vascular disease, mainly for the number of cerebral thrombosis, cerebral hemorrhage and a relatively small number. Diabetic vascular disease is characterized by a lacunar infarction. Lacunar infarction is caused by small artery disease, cerebral basal ganglia and more because of the deep perforating artery occlusion caused by liquefied after cerebral infarction, 1 ~ 3 months later, the liquefaction of organizations to absorb, and the remaining 0.5 ~ 15 mm diameter of the cavity . Clinical manifestations, often due to recurrent attacks of mild stroke and a cerebral cortex atrophy, lower memory and intelligence, the emergence of more serious dementia, hemiplegia, ataxia, difficulty in life can not take care of themselves and so the situation can lead to severe cases, death.