European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Cerebrovascular pathologies due to atherosclerosis are the most common cause of morbidity and cardiovascular diseases and the 3rd widely known cause of mortality after cancer (Silvennoinen HM ,2007). Cerebrovascular pathologies are responsible for 95% of stroke, and ischemic stroke is the cause of approximately 80% of stroke cases due to cerebrovascular pathologies. Cardiac thromboembolism is responsible for only 1/5 of transient or permanent cerebral ischemia, and 4/5 is due to atherosclerosis (Landewehr P ,1995). It is stated in the literature that extracranial carotid artery atherosclerosis ranks third among the causes of ischemic stroke. (Ooi Y.C, 2015).