There is no specific time for how many years you can live after a cerebral infarction, and there are individualized differences, which may not affect your natural life expectancy or lead to death within a few days. Cerebral infarction is an ischemic stroke caused by occlusion of cerebral blood vessels. When the infarction area is small or located in the cortex and other non-important brain function areas, after timely and effective thrombolysis or other treatments, it is easier to recover from cerebral infarction and may not affect the natural life span. When the infarction area is large, or located in the internal capsule and other important cerebral function areas, without timely and effective treatment, hemiplegia and other sequelae may remain, with a high rate of disability, and patients with severe massive cerebral infarction may have life-threatening conditions, or even die within a few days. When hemiplegia, unfavorable speech, hemianopsia and other symptoms of cerebral infarction occur, timely diagnosis and treatment should be made and medication should be administered in accordance with the doctor’s prescription in order to avoid delay in treatment.