Last month, a Miami newspaper quoted a Cuban defector claiming to be a surgeon as saying Castro had received treatment in October for a brain malady known as hypertensive encephalopathy.
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In the past, the term " hypertensive encephalopathy " has been applied to a range of neurological problems occurring in hypertensive patients, such as headache, dizziness cerebral hemorrhage and transient ischemic attacks.
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In the front-page article, a woman identified as a defecting Cuban surgeon, Dr . Elizabeth Trujillo Izquierdo, said that Castro had been treated last October for hypertensive encephalopathy, a potentially fatal illness affecting the brain.
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The most common clinical presentations of hypertensive emergencies are cerebral infarction ( 24.5 % ), pulmonary edema ( 22.5 % ), hypertensive encephalopathy ( 16.3 % ), and congestive heart failure ( 12 % ).
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El Nuevo Herald newspaper of Miami reported Sunday that a woman it identified as a former surgeon at a Havana hospital said Castro was hospitalized from Oct . 22-28 for treatment of hypertensive encephalopathy, a brain disease.
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In July, El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language newspaper published by the Miami Herald, reported Elizabeth Trujillo's claim that Castro had been hospitalized last year with hypertensive encephalopathy, a rise in blood pressure that often leads to a stroke.
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El Nuevo Herald newspaper of Miami on July 19 reported that a woman it identified as a former surgeon at a Havana hospital said Castro was hospitalized from Oct . 22-28 for treatment of hypertensive encephalopathy, a brain disease.
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In an interview from Costa Rica last week, Trujillo, 34, told the Herald that she was present at a Havana hospital Oct . 22 when Castro was rushed there with symptoms of hypertensive encephalopathy, a rise in blood pressure that often leads to stroke.
