Cerebral embolism symptoms

Cerebral embolism is a kind of ischemic cerebrovascular disease, slightly different from cerebral thrombosis. Cerebral embolism often refers to emboli in some parts of the body blocking cerebral blood vessels and forming cerebral infarction. The most common source of emboli is the heart, especially in patients with atrial fibrillation. Some emboli are easy to fall off, easy to block cerebral blood vessels with blood flow, and finally form cerebral infarction. The symptoms of cerebral embolism are divided into several types, showing different symptoms according to different parts of the brain blocked by emboli, as follows: 1. Motor injury: The patient shows hemiplegia, such as weakness of one limb, which is the most common symptom of cerebral embolism;2. Sensory symptoms: The patient often shows numbness of limbs, pain of limbs or ant crawling sensation;3. Mouth and eye skew: The reason is that the lesion affects the motor nerve of the face;4. Aphasia: Some patients show aphasia, because the language center is embolized, aphasia may be sensory aphasia, motor aphasia, or mixed aphasia, very common;5. Memory changes: such as emboli infarction to memory system, patients show sudden memory decline, including the decline of positioning ability;6. Other symptoms: such as emboli blocked in the higher cortex and other parts, patients show personality changes or emotional depression, anxiety, irritability, etc. In short, the location of cerebral embolism, patients clinically will show very different symptoms.