Silent Stroke

Silent stroke in patients with acute thrombotic stroke

Introduction: Brain stroke is the most common neurologic disorder and also the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in neurtologic patients. Thanks to new methods of radiography such as MRI, brain vascular lesions including silent stroke are demonstrated more carefully. This study considers the frequency of silent stroke in patients with acute thrombotic stroke in Rafsanjan by using M...

Silent stroke and carotid stenosis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Silent cerebral infarction is often found on computed tomographic scan in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, but its relation to the arterial stenosis is uncertain. METHODS We compared computed tomographic scans and carotid Doppler in 115 patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, 203 with carotid transient ischemic attacks and carotid stenosis, and 63 with ...

Silent stroke: not listened to rather than silent.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prevalence of silent brain infarcts varies from 8% to 28% in the general elderly population. Silent brain infarcts are associated with increased risk of subsequent stroke and cognitive dysfunction. By definition, silent strokes lack clinically overt stroke-like symptoms and fail to come to clinical attention; however, impaired recall of symptoms may be a potential con...

Silent infarctions in first-ever stroke patients.

Prevalence of silent stroke in Kurdistan, Iraq.

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of silent strokes in the Iraqi Kurdish population, and to identify silent stroke risk factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq from January to June 2009. A sample of 200 patients attending the outpatient clinic was taken. The results of CT and MRI were analyzed, and the proportion of silent infar...