BACKGROUND To compare the clinical characteristics, and short-term outcome of spinal cord infarction and cerebral infarction. METHODS Risk factors, concomitant diseases, neurological deficits on admission, and short-term outcome were registered among 28 patients with spinal cord infarction and 1075 patients with cerebral infarction admitted to the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University...

Neonatal cerebral infarction is a serious and disabling condition. It is extremely rare if it occurs in association with portal vein thrombosis. We are reporting 2 cases of neonatal cerebral infarction with this etiology. The unique mechanism of cerebral infarction will be discussed. We propose that in the absence of any identifiable cause for the cerebral infarction, portal vein thrombosis sho...

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of females and males aged ≤ 30 years with cerebral infarction in two different time periods. METHODS All patients aged ≤ 30 years with arterial cerebral infarction in 1988-1997 and 2006-2010 admitted to Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, were included. Risk factors and etiology were assessed. RESULTS Between 1988 and 1997, 16 females and 7 mal...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intake of iron, especially heme iron, has been associated with several diseases. However, epidemiological studies of heme iron and nonheme iron intake in relation to risk of stroke are lacking. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between heme iron and nonheme iron intake and stroke incidence in men. METHODS The population-based prospective Cohort of Sw...

Serum adenylate kinase (AK) activity was measured in cerebral vascular diseases and the AK isoenzyme pattern was studied in the patients suffering from cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction, and polymyositis. There was a significant difference in AK activity between the control subjects and patients with acute cerebral infarction. Serum AK activity showed a peak on the...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES In a subgroup of patients with cerebral infarction, noninvasive diagnostic explorations fail to disclose the etiology. We studied the clinical course and the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography to diagnose complex aortic atheroma plaques in patients with cerebral infarction of uncertain cause with recurrence of ischemia. PATIENTS AND METHOD In a study po...

Background: The role of Renin Angiotensin System (RAS) in ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) injuries is not fully elucidated. Furthermore, it is not clear whether inhibition of RAS by Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitors has beneficial effects in terms of protecting the brain from I/R injuries. In this study enalapril is used as an ACE inhibitor to evaluate the role of RAS in I/R injuries in...

BACKGROUND Factors affecting the angiographic recanalization (AR) and clinical improvement (CI) still remain unclear in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy. OBJECTIVES To elucidate factors related to AR and early CI in patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) or internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion. DESIGNS Retrospective study. SETTING Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center...

The contribution of glutamatergic and dopaminergic mechanisms to bladder hyperactivity after left middle cerebral artery occlusion was evaluated by determining the effects of intravenous cumulative doses of an N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamatergic antagonist (MK-801) and D1-selective (Sch-23390), D2-selective (sulpiride), or nonselective (haloperidol) dopaminergic antagonists on bladder act...