Importance and repercussions of renal and cardiovascular pathology on stroke in young adults: an anatomopathologic study of 52 clinical necropsies.

Introduction: Stroke in young adults has seldom been studied in a necropsy series. The objective of the present clinical necropsy-based investigation was to analyze stroke and its relationship with cardiovascular and renal pathology in young adults.

Materials And Methods: The protocols of 52 clinical necropsies with diagnoses of stroke in patients aged 18 - 49 years, performed between the years 1990-2006, were reviewed.

[Cerebrovascular disease: its relationship with cardiovascular and renal pathology in 134 clinical autopsies].

Objective: To establish the relationship between cardiopathy and chronic nephropathy, and cerebral vascular pathology in clinical necropsies performed in adult patients.

Material And Methods: The protocols of 861 clinical autopsies done during the lapse 1990-2000 were reviewed, of these, 134 cases with diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) were selected. Analyzed features included: neuropathological study of CVD, renal and cardiovascular pathology, and cause of death.