ASTON SEALS participates actively in fighting Brain Stroke.
Brain Stroke is a disease that affects the brain as a result of interruption of normal blood flow to brain tissue. There are two types of stroke:
- ISCHEMIC, due to the closure of an artery in the brain. In this case we speak of cerebral ischemia: the cells that were fed by the artery first undergo a heart attack and die. Cerebral ischemia is the 85% of all cases of strokes. An artery can be closed because within it formed a clot that closes once an irregularity of the artery wall itself (in this case we speak of cerebral thrombosis) or because the artery is reached by parties clots from afar ( “embolus”, usually embolus starts from the heart or from atherosclerotic plaques of the arteries that carry blood the brain; in this second case we speak of cerebral embolism).
- HEMORRHAGIC, due to rupture of cerebral artery This is known as cerebral hemorrhage. This represents 15% of cases of strokes. The most frequent cause is blood pressure too high, resulting in the rupture of normal or malformed blood vessels, called aneurysms.
Foudation A.L.I.Ce is a federation of regional associations of voluntary workers which, although autonomous and independent in their activities, collaborate to achieve common objectives at national level. It is an association open to all, particularly targeted for patients, family and staff health and takes care of people affected by stroke brain. The goal common to all regional associations is to improve the quality of life of people affected by stroke, their families and those at risk. Therefore A.L.I.Ce. association aims to:
- to create a link between patients, families, neurologists, general practitioners, physiatrists, nurses, rehabilitation therapists and medical staff involved by the disease in order to facilitate maximum functional recovery, reduce complications and allow rapid integration of people facing;
- to disclose all relevant information to recognize early manifestations of the disease and the conditions that favor;
- to inform people at risk and raise awareness of the problem, including through the media;
- to implement information campaigns on concrete possibilities for prevention and treatment of disease;
- to urge those involved in health planning to ensure the establishment specialized centers for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of people affected by stroke and to implement concrete projects for screening;
- to protect the right of patients to have on the whole national territory decent service levels, uniform and homogeneous.
