Presentation / Anatomy of Stroke Flashcards
What are symptoms if parietal lobe
Hemisensory loss Sensory inattention Apraxia Agnosia Tactile agnosia - decreased 2 point discrimination Inferior homonymous quadrantopia Gerstmann's
What is Gerstmann’s syndrome
Lesion in dominant parietal lobe R-L disorientation Finger agnosia Alcalculia (inability to do maths) Agrapghia Alexia (inability to understand words)
What are symptoms of occipital lobe lesion
Contralateral homonymous hemianopia
Cortical blindness
Visual agnosia
What are symptoms of temporal lobe lesion
Weirnecke’s aphasia/ dysphasia = same thin
Superior homonymous quadranopia / hemianopia on same side
Auditory agnosia
Amnesia
Prosopagnosia
What are symptoms of frontal lobe lesion
Hemparesis Broca's aphasia Executive dysfunction Personality change / disinhibition Memory loss Anosmia Agnosia
What are symptoms of cerebellar disorder
DANISH P Gait ataxia Inattention tremor Past pointing Dysdiokinesis Nystagmus - vertical
If hemisphere = peripheral e.g. finger nose ataxia
If vermis = gait ataxia
Lesion in medial thalamus / mammory bodies
Weirnecke’s encephalopathy
Korsakoff
Lesion in SN of basal ganglia
Parkinson’s
Lesion in striatum of basal ganglia
Huntington’s
Lesion in amygdala
Hypersexual
Hyperphagia
Visual agnosia
What does ACA supply
Frontal lobe
Motor / vision
What does lesion in ACA cause
Contralateral paralysis / hemiparesis LL > UL
Contralateral sensory loss
Gait impaiment
Impairment to logical thought and personality
What does MCA supply
Frontal, temporal and parietal lobe
Broca and Wiernecke’s
What can lesion in MCA cause
Contralateral hemiparesis - upper L worse than L
Contralateral sensory loss
Contralateral homonymous hemianopia
Gaze paralysis to side of stoke
Aphasia if dominant side - expressive or receptive
Unilateral neglect / ag
What do you get if on dominant side
APHASIA
What do you get if on non-dominant side
Neglect
Agnosia - can’t interpret sensation
What does lacunar / lentriculostrial artery supply
Basal ganglia
What can lesion here cause
Pure motor signs - isolated hemiparesis (internal capsule)
Pure sensory signs - isolated hemisensory (thalamus)
Mixed
Ataixa hemiparesis
Dysarthria - motor speech
What do basal ganglia lesions / lacunar not have
Cortical Sx
- Neglect / agnosia
- Dysphasia
- Cognition
- Visual field
What is a stroke RF for basal ganglia stroke
Hypertension
What does a basilar artery stroke affect and cause
Locked in syndrome as brain stem affected
What does PCA supply
Brain stem
Cerebellum
What does PCA stroke cause
Hemiparesis and sensory loss as tracts go through brain stem Quadraplegia Contralateral homonymous hemianopia Macular sparing Visual agnosia CN palsy Locked in Ataxia / vertigo / coma
What does retinal artery stroke cause
Sudden loss of vision
Amaurosis fugax
What does cerebellar stroke cause
Ataxia
Vertigo
Incoordination
Vertical nystagmus
`What is Weber syndrome
Branches of MCA or PCA that supply midbrain of brain stem
Midbrain infarction
Takes out SN / corticospinal / corticobulbar and 3rd CN tract