Feb. 5, 2004 -- Magnesium administered within 12 hours of an acute stroke did not improve outcome except perhaps for lacunar infarcts, according to the results of a large randomized trial published in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lacunar Infarction: (Left) T2-weighted axial MRI; (Right) Flair axial MRI. Note the well-demarcated ischemic stroke in the region of the posterior limb of the right internal capsule. GP = Globus ...

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: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Low-dose pravastatin appears to reduce the incidence of atherothrombotic infarction in ...

Multiple Lacunar State (CADASIL): (Top) Diffusion-weighted axial MRIs; (Bottom) T2-weighted axial MRIs. Note the acute infarcts in the deep white matter in the left hemisphere on the ...

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