Elderly patient with cerebrovascular pathology: Features of examination and conduct

Authors:
E.V. Ekusheva, E.A. Mkhitaryan

Place of publication:
New therapeutic magazine "Non Nocera", September, 2020

Summary:
In recent decades around the world, significant changes in the age structure of the population have occurred: a group of people from 60 years has grown at a higher rate, and therefore the prevention and treatment of diseases in older people are one of the most important tasks of modern medicine. With age in the entire body, and especially in the nervous system, there are anatomical and functional changes and disorders of various biological processes, leading to a deterioration in the blood supply to the brain and subsequent change in the small cerebral vessels (micro- and macroangiopathy), which leads to a decrease in microcirculatory blood flow, a change in vascular walls.