[The change of the degree of arterial hypertension after ischemic cerebral stroke according to 24-hour arterial pressure monitoring results].

The paper presents a retrospective analysis of the medical records of 147 patients with arterial hypertension (AH) and old ischemic cerebral stroke (ICS), who had undergone annual hospital treatment and 24-hour arterial pressure monitoring (24HAPM) for five years before ICS developed. The patients were observed and underwent 24HAPM during five years after ICS as well. The changes in average 24-hour systolic arterial pressure (SAP av.) within the 10 years were analyzed in 98 of the 147 patients who had remained in the group by the end of the observation period. The changes in SAP av. after ICS were variable. Most patients displayed slight SAP av. growth by the end of the investigation; at the same time, in 6 of the 98 patients SAP av. became lower by 7 mbar or more after ICS. The authors suppose that this decrease in the arterial pressure occurred due to the disappearance of cerebral ischemic focus in the area of ICS. The authors propose the term "ischemic cerebrovascular AH" and an algorithm of the examination of AH patients with non-stable arterial pressure due to brachiocephalic arterial pathology.