Watershed infarcts in transient ischemic attack/minor stroke with ≥50% carotid stenosis: Hemodynamic or embolic?

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1410-1416

  Moustafa, Ramez R ^a,b   Izquierdo Garcia, David ^a   Jones, P Simon ^a   Graves, Martin J ^c   Fryer, Tim D ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^c   Warburton, Elizabeth A ^a   Baron, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Department of Radiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carotid stenosis; CBF; PET; transcranial Doppler; watershed infarcts

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; WATERSHED INFARCTION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 77954177565     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.580415     Document Type: Article

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