• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 04 / 03 / 2012

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Francisco Machado Curbelo, a specialist of the Institute of Neurology and Neuroscience, said that cerebrovascular diseases are one of the most frequent causes of death in Cuba.
The previous topic was one of the topics discussed at the First Provincial Conference which met in Neuroscience this city the center of the island, with the participation of specialists from Havana, Villa Clara and provincial headquarters.

Carlos Santos, president of the Cuban Society for Neuroscience, stood out as the Greater Antilles excels internationally in the field of neuroscience, despite the lack of material.

This Society, founded in 1987, currently has over 400 professionals in the country.

For adequate patient care, he said, is achieved interdisciplinary action of neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists and other health professionals.

Participants presented their experiences on diagnosis and treatment of various nervous system disorders like multiple sclerosis, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, epilepsy, vascular dementia, among others.

According to the report of the Pan American Health Organization, currently seen in Latin America and the Caribbean with an increased incidence and severity of the disease by little or no control of risk factors.