This is also that autumn theme about anticoagulants and the risk of bleeding. People then excitedly discussed whether they would have brain hemorrhages from fashionable anticoagulants, and measured their analyzes.
Guys, you misunderstand the meaning of cerebral hemorrhages. This is usually not like a big stroke, that is, something did not bang in my head and did not flood everything there with blood. Not.
More often the case is limited to the so-called cerebral microbleeds. These are such small things, ranging in size from 2 to 10 millimeters, that appear inside the brain next to the blood vessels.
The point is that a leak appears in the wall of the vessel, through which blood leaks or leaks slightly. To your brain. Okay, huh?
A few percent of people over 65 have at least one such thing.
In people who have lived on anticoagulants for a long time, such wormholes are found in 30% of cases.
Even one such wormhole in the head already hints that the risk of a full-blown stroke is higher than that of a healthy person. Well, if there are 5 or more such spots, the risk is even higher.
Moreover, if a stroke does happen, then it does not have to be in the form of a large hemorrhage in the brain. In fact, a stroke can also be in the form of a thrombosis of an artery. That is, those very microbleeds in the brain do not have to explode. They rather hint that the vessels in the head are not all right. By themselves, they do not seem to harm.
Such wormholes are usually seen on MRI, but no one is specifically looking for them. Because we have not fully figured out exactly what the benefits will be from these finds. The less you know the better you sleep.
