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Q: Information about brain scars

asked by: DoctorQuestion on December 10th, 2008

What happens to the dead spot in your brain from a ischemic stroke?
Will it start rotting? Will it eventually disappear, be absorbed into the rest of the brain?

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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD

replied on December 11th, 2008

Stroke Answer A5075

Brain tissue that suffered from an ischemic stroke (brain infarct) will be replaced with a non-functional tissue (scar). A brain scar is, in fact, a proliferation of glia-cells (a kind of nerve cells). Usually scars will never disappear.

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