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What are the 3 major steps for the development of human brain?

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  1. Embryonic
  2. Fetal
  3. Perinatal
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What are the early stem cell lineages?

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  1. Neuroectodermal cells –> CNS

2. Endothelio-haematopoetic cells –> vascular system

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What are the vascular network?

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  1. Vasculogenesis: De-novo formation of blood vessels

2. Angiogenesis: Growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones

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What are the structure of the artery wall?

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  1. Tunica media:
    - smooth muscle
    - External elastic lamina
  2. Tunica Interna or Intima
    - Endothelium
    - Subendothelium
    - Internal elastic lamina
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What are the cerebral arteries?

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  1. Pronounced internal elastic lamina
  2. Few elastic fibres in the media
  3. Thin adventital layer with no external elastic lamina
  4. Paucity of elastic fibres in medial layer
  5. No intracranial vasa vasorom exists at birth, as compared to extracranial arterial vasculature
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What is the Windkessel effect?

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  1. Account for the shape of arterial blood pressure waveform
  2. Interaction between stroke volume and compliance of aorta and large elastic arteries and resistance of smaller arteries and arterioles
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What are the features of Windkessel effect?

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  1. Buffering high pressure that is created by the heart
  2. Aorta expands - releases that expanded pressure slowly in diastole
  3. Prevent collapsing during cardiac cycle
  4. Sustain constant blood pressure in the brain
  5. Large arteries expand, absorb pressure and release it with elastic recoil
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What is arterial stiffness due to?

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Biological aging and arteriosclerosis

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What is the pulse wave velocity?

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  1. Stiffness of the arteries

2. Cuff on neck and thigh = measure the distance between them

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What are the microvascular anatomy ?

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  1. Anterior supply = Internal carotid
  2. Posterior supply = vertebral arteries
  3. Aortic arch arises from the heart
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Where does the blood supply to your brain come from?

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  1. Right common carotid
  2. Right vertebral artery
  3. Left common carotid
  4. Left vertebral artery
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What are the variation of the aortic arch due to?

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Embryological development

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What leads to the major arterial structures?

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6 branchial arteries in the embryo

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Where does the anterior circulation originate from?

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  1. Right common carotid artery

2. Left common carotid artery

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What does the common carotid arteries arise from and what does it bifurcateinto?

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  1. Arise from aortic arch

2. Bifurcate into External carotid artery and Internal carotid artery

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Where does the vertebral arteries arise from?

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Subclavian artery

Forms basilar artery

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What is basilar artery?

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Where 2 arteries merge and form a new vessel and do not bifurcate to form other vessels

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What is the anterior circulation supplied by?

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Internal carotid arteries (ICA)

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What is the posterior circulation supplied by?

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  1. Vertebral arteries

2. Basilar artery

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What are the anterior and posterior circulation connected through by?

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Circle of Willis

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What does the external carotid arteries supply?

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  1. Face
  2. Neck
  3. Scalp
  4. Partly meninges
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What does the internal carotid arteries supply?

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  1. Brain

2. Eyes

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What are the branches of the external carotid artery?

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  1. Superior thyroid artery
  2. Ascending pharyngeal artery
  3. Lingual artery
  4. Facial artery
  5. Occipital artery
  6. Posterior Auricular artery
  7. Maxillary artery
  8. Superficial temporal artery
    (school are loosers for occluding pink money sachet)
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What does the internal carotid artery bifurcate into?

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  1. Anterior cerebral artery

2. Middle cerebral artery

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What are the segments of Internal Carotid Artery?
1. Cervical 2. Petrous 3. Lacerum 4. Cavernous 5. Clinoid 6. Opthalmic (supraclinoid) 7. Communicating (terminal segment) (cee pink lips cocky cocky ohh cocky)
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What is the blood supply to eye provided by?
Internal Carotid
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What does branches of OA supply?
All structures in the orbit as well as structures in the nose, face and meninges
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What supplies the eyeball?
Posterior cililary arteries
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What does Circle of Willis consist of?
Bilaterally paired: 1. Anterior cerebral artery 2. Internal carotid artery 3. Posterior cerebral artery 4. Posterior communicating artery and single 1. Anterior communicating artery
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What is not included in Circle of Willis?
Middle cerebral artery (MCA)
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What are the functions of Circle of Willis?
1. Redundancy for collateral circulation/cross-perfusion | 2. Distribution of blood pressure
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What does Anterior Cerebral Artery supply?
Most of the frontal lobe and superior medial parietal lobe
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What are the 5 segments of ACA?
1. A1 (horizontal, precommunicating) 2. A2 (vertical, post-communicating, Infracollosal) 3. A3 (Precallosal) 4. A4 (Supracallosal) 5. A5 (Postcollosal)
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What are the supplied territories of ACA?
1. Orbitofrontal 2. Frontopolar 3. Anterior Frontal 4. Middle Frontal 5. Posterior Frontal 6. Pre-central 7. Superior parietal 8. Inferior parietal
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What are the perforating branches of ACA?
1. Medial striate 2. Heubner 3. Optic nerves/chiasm 4. Hypothalamus 5. Anterior commissure 6. Fornix 7. Septum pellucidum
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What are the cortical branches of ACA?
1. Orbitofrontal 2. Frontopolar 3. Anterior/middle/posterior internal frontal 4. Paracentral 5. Superior/Inferior Internal parietal 6. Perisplenial
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What are the perforating branches of MCA?
Lenticulostriate arteries - perforating Basal Ganglia | M2 perforators
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What is the superior division of MCA?
Lateroinferior frontal lobe (location of Broca's area)
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What is the inferior division of MCA?
Lateral temporal lobe (location of Wernicke's area)
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What are the anatomical variation of MCA4?
1. Legend 2. Early Bifurcation 3. Large anterior temporal 4. Co-dominant 5. Superior and Inferior dominant 6. Trifurcation 7. Duplicate M1 8. Accessory M1
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What is the posterior cerebral artery supplied by?
Posterior communicating artery
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What is the basilar artery supplied by?
Anterior inferior cerebellar artery | Superior cerebellar artery
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What is the vertebral artery supplied by?
Posterior Inferior Cerebellar artery
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What is the vertebro-basilar system?
1. Vertebral arteries | 2. Basilar artery
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What does the critical arterial supply?
1. Cervical spinal cord 2. Brainstem 3. Cerebellum 4. Thalamus 5. Occipital lobes
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What is the ASPECTS score for stroke?
1. Thalami (1 point each) 2. Occipital lobe (1 point each) 3. Midbrain (2 points) 4. Pons (2 points) 5. Cerebellar hemisphere (1 point each)
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Where does the vertebral artery arise from?
Subclavian arteries
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What does vertebral artery supply?
Posterior fossa and occipital lobes
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What are the segments of vertebral artery?
1. V1 - preforaminal 2. V2 - Foraminal 3. V3 - Extradural 4. V4 - Intradural or Intracranial
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What is Basilar artery formed by?
Left and right vertebral artery | only artery that is formed by confluence
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What are the main branches of Basilar artery?
1. Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA) 2. Pontine arteries 3. Superior cerebellar artery (SCA)
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What are the arteries of posterior fossa?
1. PICA 2. AICA 3. Superior cerebellar artery (SCA)
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PICA
1. Largest branch of vertebral artery | 2. Highly variable origin
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AICA
1. Variable origin from basilar artery | 2. Near abducens and facial nerve
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Superior cerebellar artery (SCA)
1. Origin of basilar just below P1 segment PCA 2. Duplication, variable origin 3. Rarely absent
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What is the PICA-AICA dominance?
Calibre of arteries are not the same
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What is posterior cerebral artery 1?
1. Terminal branches of basilar artery 2. Supplies the posteromedial surface of temporal lobe and occipital lobe including visual cortex 3. Central perforating, choroidal + cortical branches
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What are the segments for PCA?
1. P1- precommunicating (basilar tip to pCOMa) 2. P2 - P2A: anterior- sub segment within crural cistern - P2P- posterior - subsegment in ambient cistern 3. P3 - Quadrigeminal (cistern behind brainstem) 4. P4 - cortical - cortical segment (calcarine artery, within calcarine fissure)
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What is fetal PCOM?
PCOM is larger than P1 segment of PCA and supplies bulk of blood to PCA if bilateral BA is significantly smaller than normal P1 either small/absent - can occur bilaterally
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What is artery of percheron?
1. Rare variant of posterior cerebral circulation | 2. Solitary arterial trunk supplies paramedian thalami + rostral midbrain bilaterally
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What are the perforators of Circle of Willis?
1. Medial perforators 2. Lateral perforators 3. Thalamoperforators 4. Thalamogeniculate
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What do the lenticulostriate arteries supply?
1. Basal Ganglia | 2. Internal capsule/ Corona radiata
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What is the lenticulostriate arteries?
1. Arise basal parts of MCA/ACA | 2. Penetrate anterior perforated substance
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What does the lenticulostriate arteries supply?
1. Basal ganglia | 2. Internal capsule/corona radiata
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Lateral group of lenticulostriate arteries
Around and through putamen
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medial group of lenticulostriate arteries
through globus pallidus | plus artery of heubner
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Choroidal arteries
Develop very early when choroid is prominent Anterior originates from ICA or MCA Posteromedial and Posteriolateral (branches of PCA) Anastomose and in balance

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