Multiple intracranial ischemic foci may be caused by physiologic factors brought on by age, or by diseases such as cerebral infarction. Physiological factors generally do not require treatment, and pathological factors can be cured partly after treatment.
1. Elderly factors: with age. The elderly population can develop unexplained chronic hypoxic and ischemic brain lesions. During CT or MRI, geriatric changes can be found in the brain, which is a common phenomenon of geriatric brain changes and does not need to be treated if there are no symptoms.
2. Cerebral infarction: multiple ischemic foci in the skull can occur due to multiple vascular occlusions in the brain and so on. Patients may have symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headache, etc., followed by sensory and motor disorders, and some patients may have serious symptoms such as urinary and fecal incontinence, or even coma.
Control of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and other high-risk factors, the application of aspirin, clopidogrel and other anti-thrombotic therapy, low-fat diet, appropriate exercise, or improve the cerebrovascular examination, if necessary, to take interventional therapy, etc., part of the patient can achieve a good prognosis. However, some patients will be left with sequelae or even life-threatening repeated strokes.
There are other causes of intracranial multiple ischemic foci, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to identify the cause, corresponding to the treatment of the above medication as prescribed by the doctor.