Because the blood supply to the inner ear originates from the vertebrobasilar system, vertebrobasilar ischemic stroke can present with vertigo and hearing loss due to infarction of the inner ear (i.e., labyrinthine infarction). Sometimes vertigo and hearing loss are warning symptoms of impending vertebrobasilar ischemic stroke (mainly in the anterior inferior cerebellar artery territory). In th...

igraine is a common disorder in young women, but it is rarely associated with ischemic stroke. According to previous stroke registries, migrainous infarcts account for 0.5% to 1.5% of all ischemic strokes and about 10% to 14% of young ischemic strokes.1,2 The pathophysiologic mechanism of migrainous infarction is still unclear. Here we report a patient with a migraine history in whom acute cere...

P a t i e n t s 1809 African-American patients 29 to 85 years of age (mean age 61 y, 53% women), who had noncardioembolic ischemic stroke onset ≥ 7 but not ≥ 90 days, cranial computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging of the brain consistent with the entry cerebral infarction, measurable neurologic deficit that correlates with entry cerebral infarction, and availability for follow-up in ...

Background Patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy have an increased risk for ventricular arrhythmia, since myocardial infarction can be the substrate for re-entrant arrhythmias. Contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has proven to reliably quantify myocardial infarction. Aim of our study was to evaluate correlations between functional and contrast-enhanced CMR findings and sp...

Anticoagulation with heparin is frequently recommended for patients with progressing ischemic cerebral infarction, yet little data is available detailing the acute results of treatment with this agent. We report the results of continuous intravenous heparin treatment in 36 consecutive patients admitted with progressing ischemic infarction, all of whom had computed tomography scans to exclude th...

BACKGROUND According to the literature, generalized seizure as a presenting sign of stroke is rare, and in the reported cases it was accompanied by a focal neurological deficit. Presentation of a small ischemic atherothrombotic brain infarction with convulsive generalized seizure is very rare. METHODS We reported a patient with acute small ischemic atherothrombotic infarction associated with ...

Benefits of early reperfusion in patients presenting with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are well known. The American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guidelines recommend triage decisions are made within 10 minutes of performing initial electrocardiogram (ECG). Since many patients presenting with ischemic symptoms may have ST elevation (STE) at baseline, not...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether hypo-adiponectinemia is present in ischemic stroke patients. METHODS This comparative study was carried out in the Biochemistry Department, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan in 2008. In this study, plasma adiponectin concentration was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in subjects with and without ischemic cerebrovascular disease (CVD). RE...