BACKGROUND The increased incidence of cerebral infarction in patients with systemic cancer has been reported; however, the underline mechanisms remain unclear. Investigation regarding the clinical features of cerebral infarction in cancer patients could be helpful to understand its underlying pathogenesis. METHODS A total of 537 patients were recruited and divided into three groups: 1) stroke...

Although most patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy have a favorable outcome, complications are not uncommon. Recent studies have reported an increase in incidence of cardioembolic complications; however, the association between takotsubo cardiomyopathy and stroke, in particular thromboembolic cerebral infarction, remains unclear. We reported a 44-year-old woman who had a cerebral infarction r...

Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and dysfunction due to hypertension have been established as risk markers for stroke in hypertensive patients. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in LV hypertrophy and dysfunction between patients with cerebral hemorrhage and those with cerebral infarction. The study enrolled 23 hypertensive patients with cerebral infarction, 25 hypertensi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral infarction is thought to be a multifactorial disease that is affected by several environmental factors and genetic variants. Gretarsdottir et al identified a candidate locus (STRK1) for cerebral infarction with a significant logarithm of odds score at 5q12 in whites in 2002 and subsequently identified the PDE4D gene as a susceptibility gene at this locus in 2003....

The occurrence of secondary brain stem hemorrhage was studied in 435 autopsies from patients with recent cerebral hemorrhage, infarction or ruptured cerebral aneurysms. The frequency of secondary brain stem hemorrhage was found to be 45% in cerebral hemorrhage, 15% in cerebral infarction, and 36% in ruptured aneurysms. In the majority of cases the secondary brain stem hemorrhage occurred a few ...

Clinical, angiographic and computed tomographic (CT) findings, and the volume of an Infarcted area as estimated from tomograms, were evaluated in 26 patients with proven, unilateral, internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion. Tbe volume of cerebral infarction (CI) ranged from 0 cm* to 200 cm*. It was shown that the CI volume in tbe group of patients with good collateral flow was smaller than that...