We prospectively enrolled consecutive patients with acute cerebral infarction or transient ischemic attack within 7 days after onset between October 2009 and September 2010. All of the patients ...

Silent brain infarcts are frequently seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in healthy elderly people and may be associated with dementia and cognitive decline. We studied the association between ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 41 (October 8, 2019), pp. 20666-20671 (6 pages) Cerebral ischemia is one of the leading causes of ...

A 62 year old-woman presented with vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Examination showed right sided ataxia, slurred speech, and nystagmus. Inferior Cerebellar Infarction: Flair axial MRI. Note the bright ...

Given the size of the stroke depicted in Figure 1 (greater than one third of the hemisphere), thrombolytic therapy would be contraindicated for this patient. Indications of a hemorrhagic stroke ...

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) has issued a new statement on the management of cerebral and cerebellar infarction with brain swelling. "Swollen cerebral and ...

A 71 year-old woman presented with vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Examination showed a left sided Horner's syndrome, left facial numbness, left sided ataxia, weakness of the left soft palate, slurred ...