lacunar embolism

Lacunar cerebral embolism often refers to the patient's embolism site is very small, the lesion mainly involves some small blood vessels, such as some deep perforating branches or perforating arteries, the patient generally does not show obvious neurological deficit symptoms. Lacunar cerebral embolism patients generally infarction area is very small, patients may show dizziness, head swelling, memory is slightly poor, or a little slow reaction, and calculation power is slightly poor, these patients after doing head magnetic resonance examination can find some small cerebral infarction focus, patients generally if treatment is needed, mainly for cerebral infarction secondary prevention treatment, if the patient has atrial fibrillation, generally need anticoagulation treatment.