Patients who have insufficient platelet inhibition after administration of antiplatelet therapy may be more likely to develop silent embolic cerebral infarctions following coronary angiography, ...

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) ...

Stroke is one of the most feared complications of surgery. to provide adequate preventive and therapeutic measures, physicians need to be knowledgeable about the risk factors for stroke during the ...

Silent cerebral infarcts (SCIs) are increasingly observed in patients with cardiac disease and in individuals who have undergone invasive cardiac procedures Cardiac diseases associated with the ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Cerebral embolic protection does not reduce clinical or radiographic central nervous system infarctions in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), a trial from the ...

The pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia in the borderzones between the large cerebral arteries has been the topic of considerable debate since this disease entity was defined in the first half of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After an initial embolic stroke of undetermined source, or ESUS, the most prevalent recurrent infarct was ...

A previously healthy 35-year-old man was brought to the emergency department by his family because they were concerned that he was confused. He had experienced five days of flu-like symptoms with ...

CONSIDERABLE progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of thromboembolic disease and also in the ability to diagnose acute pulmonary embolism. Radiologists have learned to interpret ...

In a small study, patients who underwent left ventricular catheter ablation for premature ventricular complexes were more likely to have subclinical brain emboli after the procedure than those who ...

How soon can you start anticoagulation in an embolic stroke from a large left ventricular (LV) apical thrombus in the setting of severe LV dysfunction? Will you start on heparin and warfarin ...

A 74 year-old man presented with new onset atrial fibrillation and the acute loss of vision on the right side. CT scan of the brain was normal on admission. Two days later, he developed a headache, ...