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...

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 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...