[Neurosciences and clinical vascular neurology : problems of heterogeneity of ischemic brain damage].

The paper presents the report made at the Second (LXV). Session of the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. It considers the major causes of lesions of the great artery of the head, intracerebral arteries in arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis, as well as cardiogenic embolisms, hemorheological and other disorders of hemostasis to be important risk factors for stroke. The conceptional problems of heterogeneity of ischemic brain lesions are discussed.