Items tagged “ischaemic stroke”
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Ischaemic stroke
Ischaemic stroke is an episode of neurological dysfunction due to focal infarction in the central nervous system attributed to arterial thrombosis, embolisation, or critical hypoperfusion. While ischaemic stroke is formally defined to include brain, spinal cord, and retinal infarcts 1, in common...
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Ghost infarct core
Ghost infarct core refers to the phenomenon that CT perfusion may overestimate infarct core on admission, especially in the early time window of a stroke, by predicting lesion in areas that will not show infarct on follow-up imaging 1. This mismatch is defined as the initial infarct core minus f...
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MCA territory infarct
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24 Apr 2021
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MRI