• Necessity of complete medical checkup.
• Inspection plan
  • Medical Checkup
    • Exclusive Checkup
      • Medical Checkup of Brain
      • Cardiac Medical Checkup
      • Complete Medical Checkup for Lung
      • Pancreas Medical Checkup
      • Breast Cancer
    • Optional Exams
      • Bowel Cancer
      • Prostate Cancer
      • Cancer of Cervix
      • ABC Exam
      • BNP Exam
      • Thyroid Gland Exam
      • Bone Density Test
      • Sleep Apnea Syndrome Exam
      • Visceral Fat CT Exam
      • Arteriosclerosis

Medical Checkup of Brain

Cause of death among Japanese: 4th rank is cerebral vascular disturbance (stroke: brain infarct, brain hemorrhage). Long time by 2010, cerebral vascular disturbance was 3rd ranked in cause of death among Japanese. Since 2011, lung inflammation becomes 3rd rank, but that is because numbers of death by lung inflammation was just increased, death by cerebral vascular disturbance is also increasing so that it is ranked 4th.

Even if the life is secured, there are quite number of the cases where severe after effect, like paralysis, language disorder or deglutition disorder, may remain. Cerebral vascular disturbance does not notice symptoms so much by the time disease is developed. However, in fact, most of the cases has some risks already so that quite number of cases can prevent disease development if having brain checkup periodically during the period of no symptoms appeared.

People over 40 years old must be careful because long lifestyle habit need to be paid back. As getting older, cerebral vascular disturbance becomes easy to be developed. If you are above age 40 and never ever had medical checkup, it is highly recommended to have brain checkup.
Also for 20’s and 30’s people, if person is pointed out the risk factor of arterial sclerosis such as high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, metabolic or high uric acid blood at health check, or person corresponding to obesity, smoking, high stress or high chloride meals, are strongly recommended. Cerebral vascular disturbance is silently sneaking up to you.

Diseases found by Brain checkup.

Menu at Brain Checkup are basically three mains, MRI, MRA and carotid artery ultrasound examination. Further, some hospital has added several tests like Brain CT or high-sensitive CRP test.

MRI

Image; Yamaguchi Red-Cross hospitalMRI is diagnosed the brain substance, so that brain infarct, brain cancer, intradural hematoma can be found. Brain Checkup often find a small but no symptom infarct (lacunar infarct). Lacunar infarct itself is not a problem but they say it is a presage of bigger brain infarct occurrence in the near future. Report says Lacunar infarct, happen to be found by MRI or CT, can be seen by 10% in 50’s and 20% in 60’s. It becomes able to prevent coming brain infarct which is found lacunar infarct at brain checkup.

MRA

Carotid Atery Ultrasonic Exam.

So far as to say, exam is to check whether plaque is on the wall of carotid artery, when exist, what kind of plaque is that. When checking plaque on carotid artery wall, following two points are important.

• Size of plaque: Is inner cavity of carotid artery narrowed and it’s about to stuck? What level is it?
• Aspect of plaque: Soft and fragile plaque is more dangerous than hard plaque. Fragile plaque may be peeled off and blew off, or break off. If getting worse, it has a risk of stuck in brain vessel then developing brain infarct.