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The Ictus, by Professor Eduardo Martínez Vila, to be held on Friday 18 April] | The event will take place at 20.00 pm in the auditorium of the College of Education Child Paseo Rosales |
Medical Research Foundation of Molina de Segura (FEM) presented at a press conference today, Wednesday April 9, the next conference of scientific (number 31), to be held in Molina de Segura (College auditorium Child Education Paseo Rosales) on Friday April 18, 2008, at 20.00, with free entry, under the title of cerebrovascular diseases.
The Ictus, by Professor Eduardo Martínez Vila, president of the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) and Head of Neurology at the University Clinic of Navarra.
The conference is organized by the WEF, the city of Molina de Segura and the Hospital de Molina, in collaboration with the Caixa.
The presentation was made by Campillo Vicente Rodriguez, MD, Vice President of the FEM, Francisco Guirado Sánchez, Director of the Hospital de Molina, Director of the CEO, Maria Trinidad Herrero Ezquerro, Professor of Human Anatomy and Neuroscience Clinical and Experimental Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia and member of the WEF, and Josefina García Lozano, Secretary of the EMF.
Bernardo explains Escribano Soriano, President of the Society of Neurology Murcia, "Stroke is a neurological deficit that affects a part of the brain caused by sudden onset of cerebral circulatory disorder that temporarily or permanently alter the functioning of one or more parts of brain.
There are several types of stroke: ischemic, whether due to lack of blood flow by vessel blockage, or hemorrhage by the rupture of it. "
"The consequence of stroke is the production of a stroke (brain area destroyed by the lack of movement that is not operating).
When we speak of stroke or stroke we are referring to what the people known as thrombosis, embolism or stroke.
Stroke is the equivalent in the brain to myocardial infarction in the heart and is a very common disease in our society and very debilitating. "
According to the National Institute of Statistics, acute cerebrovascular disease or stroke was in 2002, the second leading cause of death overall (35,947 cases) and first in women (21,018 cases) in the Spanish population.
This indicates that there is a death due to stroke every 15 minutes.
It is the leading cause of disability or serious long-term disability in adults and the second leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.
Also consumes 3% / 4% of health spending.
According to hospital in the Region of Murcia, the number of stroke admitted each year is approximately 3,000, representing an incidence similar to the rest of the country (200 cases per 100,000 population per year).
Number 27 of the magazine "femciudadano"
Coinciding with the conference on cerebrovascular diseases.
The stroke, EMF publishes and distributes the number 27 of the magazine femciudadano, with a circulation of 5,000 copies.
The contents of this magazine, a dozen pages, are related to the conference, with articles by various scientists and specialists on the subject of the conference.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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