Clinical features of cerebral strokes among liquidators of the Chernobyl accident
Author: TV. MIRONENKO, KV TORBA, NL PITSUL, GP TACHKO et al.
Reference: Международный неврологический журнал (International Journal of Neurology) 2 (12) 2007
Keywords: liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, ionizing radiation, brain strokes
Abstract: Clinical and neurological examination of 82 of liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, along with 30 patients, as control, with cerebral stroke, was conducted, using neurophysiological (Doppler ultrasound of the brain, EEG, REG), neuroimaging (CT and MRI) and biochemical diagnostic methods. On the basis of the results, it was revealed that strokes of the liquidators have their own clinical and paraclinical features in comparison with the control, indicating progressive nature of diffuse brain injury combined with multiple organ pathology, hemodynamic disorders in the macro- and microcirculation, and morpho-structural changes in the liquor system and brain tissues, especially in the periventricular structures of the limbic-reticular complex.