A lacunar stroke, also called a lacunar infarct, occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the deeper portions of the brain becomes blocked. Other types of strokes occur on the surface, or cortex, ...

Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

The MRI confirms the clinical diagnosis of subacute (10 days in this case) right thalamic lacunar infarct and illustrates the following signal characteristics frequently seen with subacute infarction: ...

Aug. 13, 2002 -- Clinical diagnosis of lacunar infarcts is unreliable, according to results of a study published in the August issue of Stroke. Diffusion-weighted (DWI) and perfusion-weighted (PWI) ...

Cilostazol and isosorbide mononitrate, two widely available drugs that have beneficial effects on endothelial function, appear to improve functional and cognitive outcomes when used in patients who ...

A stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted or blocked. A lacunar stroke is a type of ischemic stroke that occurs when blood flow to one of the small arteries deep within the brain ...

Lacunar Infarction: (Left) Flair axial MRI; (Right) Diffusion-weighted MRI. Note the acute ischemic stroke seen in the diffusion-weighted image in the region of the right thalamus, which accounts for ...

Lacunar Infarction: (Left) T2-weighted axial MRI at the level of the upper pons; (Middle) T2-weighted mid-sagittal MRI; (Right) T1-weighted mid-sagittal MRI. The well demarcated lesion on the ...

Between October 2003 and March 2010, we enrolled consecutive patients with clinical lacunar stroke syndrome (within 48 h after stroke onset) who were admitted to the Department of Neurology, Hyogo ...

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