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What are the 2 main group that stroke can be divided into?

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  1. Ischaemic
    - constitutes about 85-90% of water
  2. Haemorrhagic
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What are 2 overlapping areas of Ischaemic group?

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  1. Thromboembolic
  2. Haemodynamic
    Interplay between them in stroke setting
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When does Ischaemia occur?

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When the blood flow through one or more your coronary arteries is decreased

Perfusion drops to a certain threshold

Nutrient supplied to the brain, oxygen and glucose, drops to a critical level

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What is the consequence of nutrients dropping to a critical level?

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  1. Decoupling of potassium-ATPase pump of the cell
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What are 2 major processes of de-coupling of potassium-ATPase pump?

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  1. Influx of calcium into the cells

2. Release of glutamate into the synaptic cleft

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What leads to further increase in intracellular calcium and ventral cellular death?

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Attachment of NADPH receptors which is a irreversible process
Further increase in intracellular calcium
Ventral cellular death - end result of ischaemic process

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What is the most vulnerable to the effect of blocked artery?

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Tissue closest to the blocked artery

Become infarcted tissue

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What can be supported for longer by collateral circulation?

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Surrounding tissue away from area of infarction

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What happens to the tissue if blood supply is reversed?

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Will recover
If occlusion persists - get infarcted tissue
The lower the perfusion areas, less time is needed before infarction occurs

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What are 2 parameters that infarct are dependent on?

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  1. Severity of blood supply

2. Duration

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What is the most used modality in acute setting?

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CT

Looking for signs of acute stroke

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What is CT scan used to look for?

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To exclude haemorrhage

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What looks at major blood vessels?

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  1. CTA

2. Angiogram

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What is intraluminal thombus in a vessel?

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Looking for dense MCA

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What happens when you lose perfusion?

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Lose grey matter interface

Anterior circulation is lost in that area

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What is the posterior circulation constituted by?

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Vertebral-basilar circulation

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What is anterior circulation constituted by?

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Anterior middle cerebral arteries arising from termination of internal carotid arteries

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Where does midline anastomosis occur?

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between anterior circulation and anterior communicating arteries

There is further anastomosis communication of the anterior and posterior by the posterior communicating arteries

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What are the 3 major arterial territories?

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  1. Middle cerebral artery (MCA) -largest
  2. Anterior cerebral artery (ACA) - paramedially
  3. Posterior cerebral artery (PCA) - posteriorally
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What has invariable supply from anterior circulation by recurring arteries of hebru?

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Caudate

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What is supplied by MCA?

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Some of the lenticulate striate

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What is difficult in their supply?

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Middle deep grey structures

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What is basilar arteries involved in?

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Brainstem and cerebellar hemisphere

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What is CT fogging?

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Equalisation of the cellular fluid shifts as they shift back to more conventional depositions
(Day 3-5)

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What is a finding on an enhanced CT scan?
Look for thrombus within vessel that is blocked
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What is MCA dot sign?
early marker of thromboembolic occlusion of the distal MCA branches seen in the sylvian fissure Principally affected area of the brain is the Insula
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what does MCA supply?
Deeper ganglionic structures - Thalami - Caudate - Lenticulostriates structures
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Example of PCA infarct
1. Paramedian-dorsally | 2. Also extending along the inferior temporal lobe
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Example of Basilar arteries
Involves the: 1. Brainstem 2. Cerebellar hemispheres
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What involves all of the territories ?
Central cause of ischaemia/Infarction Loss of grey/white matter interface both hemispheres Cant appreciate the deeper ganglionic structures Paroxysmal prominence of the tentorium
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Why is CT perfusion used?
To scrutinize what is happening at the physiological level Take sequential volumetric imaging through a slab of tissue - level of roughly MCA Formation of 2 curves - arterial curve and venous curve Derive from that parametric graphs: - MTT - CBF - CBV
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Relative increase in cerebral blood flow
Pertains to pneumbral tissue rather than infarcted tissue
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What is CBV useful for ?
Triaging patients where there is uncertainty about the extent of infarcted tissue
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Paucity of vessels
A borderzone between anterior and middle cerebral arteries There is also an area of low density vessels from MCA - deep water shed zone 1. cortical - between anterior and middle cerebral arteries 2. Deeper areas - cortical and proximal M1 segments of MCA
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What is watershed zones infarcts?
Occur at the border between cerebral vascular territories where the tissue is furthest from arterial supply and thus more vulnerable to reductions in perfusion
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What does the sub-cortical areas incorporate?
Deeper ganglia as you work your way through top to bottom of the brain
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What does MRI help with
Help patients that present with stroke
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DWI
Looking for an increase in signal
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ADC map
Looking for a decrease in signal
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what are TIA?
Mini strokes
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What happens following a TIA?
The likelihood of having a formal stroke is highest in the first few days then 7 days then 14 days after
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How can you further classify patients presenting with TIA?
``` ABCD2 score A- Age > 65 B - BP > 140/95 C - Paresis - Speech/Visual D - symptom pathology > 1 hour Also if you are diabetic ```
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A score of 4 on the ABCD2 scale?
risk is smaller in the next 7 days of developping the stroke
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A score of 5 on the ABCD2 scale?
Risk drops quite remarkably to 12%
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What is a common cause of stroke?
Atherosclerosis
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What are the 3 classifiers of stroke?
1. NASCET 2. ECST 3. CC
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What are the 2 complicastions of Carotid dissection?
1. Thromboembolic | 2. Haemodynamic - narrow lumen and reduce the blood flow
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What is the treatment for Carotid dissection?
1. Medical
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Initial stage of patient presenting with ischaemic stroke
1. Clinical examination and rapid radiological assessment 2. Imaging in the form of CT is required 3. Medical --> Thrombolysis [within time scale]
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What are 2 major studies of ischaemic stroke?
1. NINDS trial - within 3 hours of onset | 2. ECLAS3 - within 3-4.5 hours off onset
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Endovascular Stroke Management
1. Proximal vessel occlusion
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What are the 3 major studies published ?
1. MR CLEAN 2. EXTEND-IA 3. ESCAPE shows efficacy in selected patients in the vascular treatment for stroke
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MR CLEAN
most of the control group were in the proximal or ICA/MCA | between intervention and control group there is a shift of MRES group of better outcome
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What strategies can be used for endovascular stroke
1. Chemical | 2. Mechanical - stent
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What are the 2 classifications of Intracranial Haemorrhage?
1. Intraxial | 2. Extra-axial
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What are examples of Extra-axial Haemorrhage?
1. Sub-dural 2. Extra-dural/epidural 3. Subarachnoid
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What is an example of surgical emergency?
Epidural | lots of mass effect

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