Effect of Long-Term Antihypertensive Treatment on the Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients with Brain Infarction
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Vol. 3 (3) , 154-159
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000108691
Abstract
After long-term antihypertensive treatment (mean 25 months, range 18–38 months), the cerebral blood flow (CBF) in both symptomatic and asymptomatic hemispheres remained unchanged despite a reduction in blood pressure in 24 hypertensive cases with chronic cerebral infarction. However, there was a positive correlation between the change in systolic or mean blood pressure and the change in CBF in the symptomatic hemisphere (p < 0.05). Our data suggest that more than 80% of the pretreatment level of blood pressure or 120 mm Hg of systolic blood pressure might be a preferable lower level of blood pressure for antihypertensive treatment in patients with chronic cerebral infarction.Keywords
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