Shaista Bibi.
Nursing Management of patient with Cerebral Vascular Accident Stroke.
Pak J Chest Med Jan ;23(3):116-8.

Introduction: Cerebral vascular accident has many causes, and risk factor. 80% of the stroke are ischemic, it develop a clout that cut off blood flow to the brain tissues. Atherosclerosis develops with diabetes, its increase the stiffness in the blood vessels, and interrupt with blood perfusion, when the arteries become thin, and pressure increase in blood vessels it cause stroke. Age, high blood pressure and hypercholesterolemia, and positive family history are also leading factor of stroke. Miss Z, also having the positive family history of CVA, her mother was also died with this disease.

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