Cerebral infarction

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• Synonyms

  • Cerebral ischaemic damage
  • Ischaemic brain damage
  • Ischaemic stroke

• Causes

  • Arterial embolus
  • Carotid occlusive disease
  • Intracerebral haemorrhage
  • Paradoxical embolus
  • Acute hypoxia
  • Carotid artery dissection
  • Hypoglycaemia
  • Intravascular thrombus formation
  • Cerebral autosomal dominant angiopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy
  • Migraine
  • Cerebral vasculitis
  • Mitochondrial myopathy encephalopathy lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Amphetamine
  • Fibromuscular dysplasia
  • Fabry disease
  • Alpers syndrome
  • Congenital autosomal recessive angiopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy

• Effects

  • Cerebral lesion
  • Cerebral oedema
  • Vascular dementia
  • Chorea

• Parents

  • Cerebrovascular accident
  • Cerebrovascular disease

• Treatments

  • Aspirin
  • Clopidogrel
  • Thrombolysis
  • Dipyridamole