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Sunday, September 4, 2011

The fragile state of health of Jacques Chirac


Price of fame, medical confidentiality for Jacques Chirac is not really respected. Although no specific diagnosis has been disclosed, pointed exegesis of his health in the world judiciaro-media offers some specific enough to analyze the evil that affects it. Those who know that recently met the former president has suffered several months of a neurological weakness.
At 78, former head of state is suffering from a degenerative brain beginner. Is it Alzheimer's? In vascular dementia? Both conditions result in a deterioration of intellectual ability. They are sometimes associated. But actually have features that usually allow to distinguish them.
Thus, cerebrovascular accident (CVA) which affected Jacques Chirac in 2005 would think instead about cognitive impairment of vascular origin. "The diagnosis can be focused on medical imaging, including magnetic resonance, which in case of stroke, can see images deficient in the brain, said Dr. Olivier de Ladoucette (geriatrician, president of the IFRAD in Paris). Moreover, the evolution is different from Alzheimer's disease, which is progressive. Dementia of vascular origin evolve stair. "
In addition, as part of the brain degeneration of vascular origin, movement disorders are often associated, walking slowly, tend to fall back, slurred speech ... may be added to mood disturbances, gradual disinvestment ...
After a first important stroke, a patient may recur low noise, with small strokes that go undetected clinically but may cause long-term cognitive difficulties most important, explains Professor Françoise Forette, a specialist in internal medicine and geriatrics.
Some areas of the brain are poorly irrigated and lack of oxygen due to a series of small accidents in the blood vessels. Thus can be a vascular dementia, which accounts for 30% of all dementias, says Professor Forette. According to the affected areas of the brain, memory loss occur, language disorders, disturbance of thinking skills.
Age is a risk factor: the potential for regeneration of the brain related to its plasticity decreases with age. Structures that take over after a stroke may no longer be able to do, because every day we lose a little more than neurons, is Professor Yves Dauvilliers, a neurologist at University Hospital of Montpellier. Moreover, adds Dr. Ladoucette any mental or physical trauma can be an aggravating factor. The trial court that faces the former president could be detrimental.

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