DYNAMICS COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS RECOVERY IN THE ACUTE PERIOD OF DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF ISCHEMIC STROKE AFTER SYSTEMIC THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY

Havlovska Ya. Yu., Lytvynenko N. V., Shkodina A. D., Havlovskyi O. L.

CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Scentific article

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of disability, and a significant financial burden. Currently, 3 to 4% of the total health care costs of countries are spent on stroke treatment. Studies of stroke survivors have shown that approximately 10% may develop dementia within the first year after a stroke. However, today the issue of early recovery of patients with acute cerebrovascular diseases and the phenomenology of the development of complications, in particular cognitive disorders in the acute period, is an acute issue, which would allow optimizing personalized strategies for the treatment of such patients. The goal is to evaluate the dynamic changes in the cognitive sphere in patients in the acute II period with atherothrombotic and cardioembolic subtypes after thrombolysis. We conducted a prospective two-center study of patients in the acute phase of ischemic stroke. 89 patients were included in the study: group 1aA (n=32) – patients with atherothrombotic subtype of ischemic stroke (IS), who were subject to thrombolytic therapy (sTLT); group 1aK (n=16) – patients with cardioembolic subtype IS who were to undergo sTLT; group 2 (n=20) –healthy patients with no history of acute cerebrovascular disorders (control group). Assessment of cognitive functions was carried out using international standardized scales, in particular: Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). We established statistically significant differences between the examined groups for 1 day according to indicators of time orientation (р=0.007), attention and calculation (р<0.001), perception and memory (р=0.001) and the total MMSE score (р<0.001). Statistically significant differences were found between the examined groups on the 14th day in the indicators of attention and calculation (p<0.001) and in the total MMSE score (p<0.001). No significant differences in ∆MMSE were found between groups 1aA and 1aK (р=0.701). In patients with cardioembolic subtype IS, the presence of positive dynamics in the acute period was established, while in patients with atherothrombotic subtype it was not detected. Along with this, the difference in recovery of various domains of the cognitive sphere in the acute period according to subtype IS was noted. This is how we discovered. that the dynamic changes of cognitive functions in the acute IS period after sTLT vary depending on the clinical subtype.

cognitive disorders,dementia,thrombolysis,ischemic stroke

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«Bulletin of problems biology and medicine» Issue 1 (168), 2023 year, 131-141 pages, index UDK 616.831-005.1:616.895-085

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