Articles Tagged With: infarcts
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Incidental Cerebral Microinfarcts in Patients with Active Cancer
In this study of patients with active cancers, 3.6% had asymptomatic, incidental acute ischemic stroke lesions on magnetic resonance imaging and had three times the risk of having a subsequent clinical stroke in the next month.
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Can Anticoagulant Strategies Reduce Covert Brain Infarcts in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease?
Covert brain infarcts are detected on magnetic resonance imaging studies in the aging brain in about 10% of people at age 65 years, increasing to 25% at age 80 years. Most patients who develop dementia have a combination of multiple small infarcts, plus amyloid deposition. Prevention of covert infarcts is a strategy to mitigate the frequency and severity of late-life dementia.