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A silent lacunar infarction (SLI) is one type of silent stroke which usually shows no identifiable outward symptoms, and is thus termed "silent". Because stroke is a clinical diagnosis (that is, it is defined by clinical symptoms), there is debate about whether SLI are considered to be strokes, even though the pathophysiology is presumably the ...
Total anterior circulation infarct (TACI) is a type of cerebral infarction affecting the entire anterior circulation supplying one side of the brain.The anterior circulation is the part that is supplied by the internal carotid artery, as opposed to the posterior circulation, supplied by the vertebral arteries.
Parisian journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby had a stroke in December 1995, and, when he awoke 20 days later, he found his body was almost completely paralyzed; he could control only his left eyelid. By blinking this eye, he slowly dictated one alphabetic character at a time and, in so doing, was able over a great deal of time to write his memoir ...
Furthermore, "In the microscopic level of small arteries or arterioles, hypertension also generates specific vasculopathies such as lipohyalinosis and thus causing lacunar infarctions". [6] Hypertensions and lacunar infarcts and lacunar stroke are related. This means hypertension is a start to a chain reaction.
The most common presentation of cerebrovascular disease is an ischemic stroke or mini-stroke and sometimes a hemorrhagic stroke. [2] Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the most important contributing risk factor for stroke and cerebrovascular diseases as it can change the structure of blood vessels and result in atherosclerosis . [ 5 ]
Older age or cognitive impairment at diagnosis, the presence of cerebral infarctions on imaging (stroke), spinal cord involvement, delays in diagnosis and involvement of the medium and large vessels are associated with a poor prognosis and increased mortality in primary CNS vasculitis.
Cerebral infarction, also known as an ischemic stroke, is the pathologic process that results in an area of necrotic tissue in the brain (cerebral infarct). [1] In mid to high income countries, a stroke is the main reason for disability among people and the 2nd cause of death. [ 2 ]
Lacunar amnesia, loss of memory about one specific event; Lacunar stroke, in medicine, the most common type of stroke; Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band; Lacunary function, an analytic function in mathematics; Lacunarity, a mathematical measure of the extent that a pattern contains gaps; Lacunary polynomial, or sparse polynomial