BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Subarachnoid cysticercosis is a well-recognized cause of cerebral infarction. However, few patients with this infection develop cerebral infarction, and the reason for this is not known. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of cerebral arteritis in these patients. METHODS Using cerebral arteriography, we studied 28 patients with subarachnoid cysticercosi...

Cerebral Vasospasm With Infarction • A case of intense unilateral cerebral vasospasm with appropriate neurological deficit following rupture of a posterior communicating aneurysm was followed with serial angiography. Associated with the initially intense spasm was subsequent regional hyperperfusion with early venous filling which disappeared as signs of focal cerebral atrophy ensued. These angi...

Rapid and targeted diagnostic evaluation is essential in the clinical diagnosis of cerebral ischaemic infarction. According to the principle “time is brain”, clinical evaluation should be performed as a matter of urgency to initiate potential treatment without any delay. Cerebral infarction is a medical emergency and accordingly, patients with suspected cerebral infarction have priority in the ...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of unilateral neonatal cerebral infarction in infants born at 32 weeks gestation and above; to describe the clinical course, imaging results, and outcome of neonatal cerebral infarction; and to investigate possible aetiology. METHODS Twelve cases of unilateral neonatal cerebral infarction were identified from neonatal unit records for the years 1987-93. Each c...

Cerebral infarction is a severe hypoxic ischemic necrosis with accelerated neuronal cell apoptosis in the brain. As a monoclonal antibody against interleukin 6, tocilizumab (TCZ) is widely used in immune diseases, whose function in cerebral infarction has not been studied. This study aims to reveal the role of TCZ in regulating neuronal cell apoptosis in cerebral infarction. The cerebral infarc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Methods have not been well developed and tested to predict the extent of remote degeneration in the central nervous system that follows cerebral infarction. We hypothesized that the extent of infarction overlap with the cerebral hemispheric course of the corticospinal tract (CST) on structural MR imaging predicts the extent of ipsilateral cerebral peduncular atrophy in pa...

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...

We present a rare case of bilateral anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory infarction with akinetic mutism, quadriparesis and frontal lobe release signs along limbic dysfunction mimicking basilar thrombosis. The etiology was thrombosis the communicating propagation or embolism thrombus to both A2 segments restricted absent blood flow in branches arising from A3 causing extensive infarction. a...

Until December 8, 2007, the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb received 12 reports of (specific symptoms of) cerebral infarction associated with the use of cisplatin. Reported terms were brainstem infarction, arterial thromboembolism, cerebral infarction, cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular disorder, embolism, hemiplegia, paralysis, and cortical blindness. Four of these reports we...

Rapid and targeted diagnostic evaluation is essential in the clinical diagnosis of cerebral ischaemic infarction. According to the principle “time is brain”, clinical evaluation should be performed as a matter of urgency to initiate potential treatment without any delay. Cerebral infarction is a medical emergency and accordingly, patients with suspected cerebral infarction have priority in the ...