Suddenly unable to call my name is caused by "brain infarction"
Guangzhou Daily (all-media reporter Zhang Qingmei, correspondent Zheng Lin) A 38-year-old man in Anhui suddenly couldn’t call his name and family members, but he couldn’t call specific things. He was finally diagnosed in Guangzhou. Named aphasia caused by acute cerebral infarction.
Experts remind that the manifestations of cerebral infarction are diverse, and friends of the public should pay more attention and seek medical treatment in time to avoid delay in treatment.
Suddenly unable to call
Names of yourself and your family
According to Huang Dong (pseudonym)’s wife, Ms. Wang (Hua surname), about late November last year, when chatting with her husband, she suddenly found that he was confused in logic and unsatisfactory. Not only was he unable to call his family’s name, but even his own name. Unable to speak.
However, Huang Dong's other behaviors are the same as normal people. If you don't ask him the names of specific things, ordinary people can't find his abnormality.
Ms. Wang felt uneasy and took her husband to a nearby hospital for treatment.
After taking the medication, Huang Dong's symptoms did not improve significantly. Later, he moved to Guangdong Sanjiu Brain Hospital.
When receiving the consultation, Deputy Chief Physician Sun Yongqi of the Sixth Department of Neurology of the hospital found that the patient could not accurately name the person or object.
Head magnetic resonance examination revealed that the patient's left temporal occipital lobe, thalamus, and corpus callosum were infarcted.
In the end, Huang Dong was diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction, commonly known as "stroke."
After giving anti-platelet aggregation, improving circulation, controlling blood pressure and blood sugar and other drug treatments, as well as scientific speech training, the patient's condition improved significantly.
In early December, Huang Dong, who had recovered his normal speaking ability, was finally discharged from the hospital.
Symptoms of cerebral infarction
Much
Human speech function is closely related to the frontal, temporal, occipital and parietal lobes of the left hemisphere of the brain.
"The patient's unnamed manifestation is medically called'named aphasia'." Sun Yongqi introduced that 85% of aphasia is caused by cerebral infarction, and 25% to 40% of patients with cerebral infarction are accompanied by aphasia.
Such patients may be unable to understand what others are saying, unable to accurately express their meaning, forget the names of things they want to say, cannot understand the contents of books and newspapers, or write wrong words or even cannot write words.
"When a cerebral infarction was diagnosed, patients and their family members could not believe it. One is that'stroke' usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, and the other is that people with'stroke' usually have skewed mouth, weak limbs, and slurred speech. Sun Yongqi explained that there are many symptoms of cerebral infarction. In addition to the above common symptoms, dizziness, aphasia, nausea, tinnitus, hiccups, hemiplegia and other symptoms may also occur due to the difference in the location of the infarction and the area of the infarction. "Patients and their family members should seek medical attention in time when they discover physical abnormalities, so as not to delay treatment." Sun Yongqi emphasized.