A man in the 40s presented with acute vertigo and occipital headache. He was diagnosed with right posterior inferior ...

March 5, 2009 (San Diego, California) — New findings from the Framingham Heart Study show that in middle age, silent cerebral infarcts (SCI) are 5 times more common than symptomatic stroke and ...

Given the size of the stroke depicted in Figure 1 (greater than one third of the hemisphere), thrombolytic therapy would be contraindicated for this patient. Indications of a hemorrhagic stroke ...

Research has shown that 'hypothermic treatment' which reduces brain damage by temporarily lowering body temperature can be ...

Cerebral infarction, commonly known as ischemic stroke, has a high mortality rate and causes severe damage to nervous cells in the brain owing to the loss of oxygen, which results in limiting body ...

Sleep apnea can more than double the risk of cerebral microbleeds and stroke by causing chronic oxygen dips and vascular ...

A new study indicates that there is an increased risk for cerebral microbleeds among adults who have moderate to severe ...