The Speed of Cerebral Circulation

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IN modern civilizations an enormous toll of suffering and death is exacted by local disorders of brain blood flow. Regional hemodynamic failure, with unique rapidity, produces anoxic devastation in cerebral tissue. The paralyzed neuronal function is reflected clinically as a stroke.More adults are crippled by hemodynamic failure in the brain than by any other ailment — and the numbers of victims are increasing in a steadily aging population. Vascular lesions of the central nervous system now represent the third leading cause of death in the United States. Disorders of brain circulation have left vast armies of neurologic cripples who . . .

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