The CVA, popularly called a stroke, is the acronym for cerebrovascular accident, the medical term used when a part of the brain suffers an infarction, usually due to a failure in blood circulation.
The CVA (stroke) has various names, stroke being the most correct, but can also be called a cerebral infarction, cerebral ischemia, cerebral thrombosis. In this paper we discuss ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.
