Annick Percheron (1937-1992)

Artery of Percheron infarction.

An 85 year-old woman with normal cognitive function and ability to walk unaided was admitted to hospital in May 2011 because of sudden onset of stupor and a fall at home. She had a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and atrial fibrillation, and was taking aspirin. On physical examination, she was somnolent with Glasgow Coma Scale score of 8/15 (eye 1/4, motor 6/6, verbal response 1/5)....

CASE REPORT Artery of Percheron Thrombolysis

V. Kostanian S.C. Cramer SUMMARY: A patient with acute top of the basilar syndrome clinically was found to have only a small basilar artery filling defect but complete occlusion of the artery of Percheron. Intra-arterial thrombolysis resulted in favorable neurologic outcome. To our knowledge, this is the only case of angiographically proved and treated artery of Percheron occlusion. The value o...

Artery of Percheron infarction: a case report

BACKGROUND The artery of Percheron is a rare anatomic variant of arterial supply to the paramedian thalamus and rostral midbrain, and occlusion of the artery of Percheron results in bilateral paramedian thalamic infarcts with or without midbrain involvement. Acute artery of Percheron infarcts represent 0.1 to 2% of total ischemic stroke. However, of thalamic strokes, occlusion of artery of Perc...

Infective endocarditis 1937-1987.

Eric Davidson (1937–2015)

The complexity of gene regulation and its importance to evolutionary change is now a foundational principle in both development and evolution. But this was not the case in the 1960s when Eric Davidson was one of a small group of scientists who began developing a theoretical framework backed by rigorous experimental work to explore this issue. Davidson and his group made fundamental contribution...