Talk:Apoplexy

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Should this be a redirect to cerebrovascular accident? I understand that the term is sometimes used to refer to something else, but that is unusual, is it not? Besides, this really seems like a dictionary definition. --Timc 03:29, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Is apoplexy the losing of consciousness as a result of the vascular compromise, or the vascular compromise that leads to the losing of consciousness ? I still don't get it .... -- PFHLai 13:58, 2004 Jun 8 (UTC)

C'mon Patrick! Those two statements are identical. This page ought to have been scrapped. Now it's here: the vascular compromise (vasospasm, if you want) leads to coma. JFW | T@lk 14:26, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for my being dumb, Dr. Wolff, but I genuinely don't get it.

The 2 statements are not identical. Is Apoplexy the "losing of consciousness" part or the "vascular compromise" part ? Must have both to call it an apoplexy ?

I've heard "apoplexy" used to mean the sudden loss of consciousness / neurological function in a mild epileptic incident (more than a 'petit mal', I suppose ?), i.e. no vascular compromise, not a stroke. Right or wrong use of the word here ?

-- PFHLai 16:09, 2004 Jun 8 (UTC)

P.S. Vasospasm ? Hey ! It's red !

I get the same meaning in my medical dictionary. You might be correct that apoplexy is any sudden neurological coma... JFW | T@lk 16:19, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I am under the impression that this word is now 'obsolete' as a medical term due to frequent mis-use in colloquial English. Oh, well .... -- PFHLai 03:52, 2004 Jun 11 (UTC)

Not only is the word obsolete, in older references it usually describes only the symptom of sudden collapse, not the condition causing the collapse. ANYTHING that could cause a sudden collapse leading to death - a thrombotic stroke, a hemorrhagic stroke, a ruptured berry aneurysm, a sudden and severe heart attack, a ruptured aortic aneurysm, etc., etc. - could have been called "apoplexy" in the old days, and especially before 1800, when autopsies were rare. This article should really point out that historically, "apoplexy" often described a symptom and not a disease process. --Charlene 04:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

ok 64.131.226.247 14:54, 6 October 2007 (UTC)