Ch 1 - Stroke: Types Flashcards
Where do most Internal carotid artery infarctions occur?
1st part of ICA immediately after carotid bifurcation
What causes occular infarction?
Embolic occlusion of retinal branch or central retinal artery
What is amaurosis fugax?
Transient monocular blindness that occurs prior to ICA occulsion in 25% of cases
Where do middle cerebral infarctions occur?
Stem of the MCA or at main divisions (superior or inferior)
of the artery in the Sylvian sulcus
What does the superior division of the MCA provide?
Rolandic and pre-Rolandic areas
What is the most common cause of occlusion of superior division of MCA?
Embolus
What is the clinical presentation of superior division MCA strokes?
Sensory and motor deficits on contralateral face and arm > leg
Eyes deviate toward lesion
What is the clinical presentation of left side (dominant) superior division MCA strokes?
Global aphasia initially and then Broca’s aphasia
What are deficits of right side (nondominant) superior division MCA strokes?
Spatial perception
Hemineglect
Constructional apraxia
Dressing apraxia
What is constructional apraxia?
Inability of patients to copy accurately drawings or 3D constructions
What does the Inferior division of the MCA supply?
Lateral temporal and inferior parietal lobes
What visual deficit is seen with Inferior division of the MCA stroke?
Superior quadrantanopia or homonymous hemianopsia
What is the clinical presentation of Left Inferior division of the MCA stroke?
Wernicke’s aphasia
What is the clinical presentation of Right Inferior division of the MCA stroke?
Left visual neglect.
What happens if there is an occlusion of the ACA proximal to the anterior communicating artery?
Well tolerated as there is blood supply from the contralateral ACA
What is the clinical presentation of an ACA stroke?
Contralateral weakness and sensory loss of foot/leg >thigh
Gait apraxia
Eyes deviate toward lesion
What are potential symptoms of an ACA stroke?
Urinary incontinence
Contralateral grasp reflex
Paratonic rigidity (Gegenhalten)
What aphasia is seen with Left ACA stroke?
Transcortical aphasia
What is seen with ACA stroke if both ACA arteries arise from one major stem?
Aphasia
Paraplegia
Incontinence
Frontal lobe dysfunction
What does the PCA supply?
Upper brain stem
Inferior temporal lobe
Medial occipital lobe
What is seen with bilateral PCA stroke?
Anton’s syndrome: denial of cortical blindness
What is the clinical presentation of PCA stroke?
Prosopagnosia Palinopsia Alexia Transcortical sensory aphasia CN3 and CN4 palsy
What is prosopagnosia?
Can’t read faces
What is Alexia?
Can’t read
What is Weber syndrome?
Oculomotor palsy with contralateral hemiplegia
What is trochlear nerve palsy?
Vertical gaze palsy
What do the vertebrobasilar arteries supply?
Midbrain Pons Medulla Cerebellum Posterior and ventral aspects of the cerebral hemispheres
Where do the vertebral arteries join and what do they form?
Form basilar artery at pontomedullary junction
What creates the posterior-inferior cerebellar (PICA)?
Vertebral arteries
What creates the anterior-inferior cerebellar (AICA)?
Superior cerebellar arteries that arise from the Basilar artery