Place of the drug Mexidol in the prophylaxis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases
Mexidol, characterized be multifactor mode of action is widely used in the complex treatment of the patients with a acute cerebrovascular accidents, dyscirculatory encephalopathy with hypertension, vertebrobasilar insufficiency and other conditions with tissue hypoxia. Besides of antioxidant characteristics, it has antihypoxic, antiatherogenic, nootropic, gamma-aminobutyric acid protective effects. The efficiency of using Mexidol in therapy of stroke and other nervous system diseases, accompanied by increasing lipid peroxidation, hypoxia, disturbances of the brain metabolism.

Keywords: mexidol, antioxidant effect, cerebrovascular diseases, stroke