Do patients with cavitary infarcts have to take long-term medication

Cavernous cerebral infarction requires long-term medication, such as aspirin, atorvastatin calcium tablets, medications for high blood pressure and diabetes. The symptoms of lacunar cerebral infarction are usually mild and the recovery is relatively fast, but lacunar cerebral infarction is prone to recurrent episodes, which may cause multiple lacunar cerebral infarction in severe cases. Therefore, patients with lacunar cerebral infarction need to take long-term medications, such as anti-platelet aggregation drugs (aspirin, clopidogrel), lipid-lowering drugs (atorvastatin calcium tablets, resuvastatin, etc.). It is also necessary to actively control the primary disease, such as hypertension and diabetes. Captopril, hydrochlorothiazide, etc. can be used to control blood pressure; metformin, glipizide, etc. to control diabetes. The prognosis of lacunar cerebral infarction is better than other types of cerebral infarction, and the mortality and disability rates are very low. However, patients with lacunar cerebral infarction must actively control the risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, etc., in addition to smoking cessation, alcohol cessation, and a light diet to minimize the occurrence of adverse consequences.