Thrombolysis

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Thrombolysis

Fig. 14.1 22-year-old female patient with left middle cerebral artery infarction and right hemiplegia and aphasia. The NIHSS score was 20. MRI performed 3 h after onset of symptoms shows abnormalities on…

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Haematological Disorders

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Haematological Disorders

Fig. 8.1 Sickle-cell anaemia in a 26-year-old male patient resulting in moyamoya syndrome. The TOF sequence shows bilateral terminal internal carotid artery occlusion (a hollow arrow, occluded right internal carotid artery)…

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Incidental Findings

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Fig. 13.1 Incidental finding on MRI (a FLAIR sequence) of numerous focal white matter hyperintensities in a 54-year-old female patient with no particular history investigated for nonspecific chronic headache. The patient…

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Watershed Infarction

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Fig. 4.1 Patient who experienced cardiac arrest responsible for low output state. Cerebral ischaemia involving all border zones of the brain (1 border zone between anterior and middle cerebral arteries, 2…

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Spinal Cord Infarction

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Spinal Cord Infarction

Fig. 11.1 Arterial vascular anatomy of the spinal cord Pathophysiology Two types of spinal cord infarction are distinguished: Global ischaemia secondary to low cardiac output (cardiac arrest, severe hypotension in a…

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Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

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Fig. 10.1 Acute phase of deep venous thrombosis (right thalamostriate vein). The FLAIR sequence (a) shows the venous infarction with very limited hyperintensity on diffusion-weighted images (c) related to predominantly vasogenic…

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Lacunar Infarcts and Small-Vessel Disease

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Lacunar Infarcts and Small-Vessel Disease

Fig. 6.1 Hyperintense lacunar infarct in the left lateral sulcus on diffusion-weighted images (a hollow arrow). It is associated with multiple lacunar infarct sequelae as “holes” in the brain parenchyma, hypointense…

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Transient Ischaemic Attacks

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Fig. 5.1 Patient with right carotid TIA. MR angiography (a axial section, b sagittal reconstruction) shows unstable plaque of right carotid bulb with endoluminal fragment (arrow). REC right external carotid artery, RIC…

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Systems Phenomics

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Systems Phenomics

Fig. 7.1 Magnetic resonance images of a 24-week-old foetus. From Anblagan et al. (unpublished observation) The same scanner can be used for acquiring different types of images by changing the exact…

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Personalized Preventive Medicine

Dec 16, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Personalized Preventive Medicine

Fig. 10.1 Healthy and total (healthy + unhealthy) life expectancy at birth in England, 1994–1999. Adapted from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0. From Bajekal (2005) Given…

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