The relationship between WMLs and clinical symptomatology, functional condition is not known in patients with ACI, who have or do not have co-existing acute/chronic, supratentorial/infratentorial infarct. In addition, WMLs are proposed to be a strong predictor for persistency of clinical symptoms, they are significantly associated with age in patients with isolated cerebellar infarct. WMLs are associated with motor, cognitive, mood, urinary disturbances, and disability, but little is known about the prevalence of neurological signs in patients with these brain lesions. ,, Increasing age and vascular risk factors such as hypertension (HT), diabetes are related to the degree of WMLs. Its prevalence is estimated from 5% to 20% in several population-based trials. Subcortical white matter lesions (WMLs) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the healthy elderly are common. ,, The risk factors for cerebellar stroke are the same as for strokes in other areas of the brain, but clinical manifestations in the acute stage are very nonspecific. It is common between the fifth and eighth decades of life, with men aged 60–65 being affected more often than women. Ischemic cerebellar infarction is a rare condition and accounts for between 1.5% and 20% of all ischemic strokes. Clinical and radiologic features and their relationships with neurofunctional scores in patients with acute cerebellar infarct. How to cite this URL: Kozak HH, Uca AU, Poyraz N, Anliacik SO, Tokgoz OS. How to cite this article: Kozak HH, Uca AU, Poyraz N, Anliacik SO, Tokgoz OS. Keywords: Cerebellar infarct, neurofunctional condition, radiological features, subcortical white matter lesion Although it is difficult to detect the relationship between WMLs and neurologic functional severity, timely detection of risk factors and their modulation may be associated with prevention and treatability of WMLs, and this may be one of the important points for prevention of stroke-related disability. The other cerebral area infarcts which accompany ACI negatively affect neurologic functional scores. Conclusion: Cerebellar infarct is very heterogeneous. Fourteen (35%) patients were detected to be in Fazekas stage 0 11 (27.5%) patients in Fazekas stage 1 6 (15%) patients in Fazekas stage 2 and 9 (22.5%) patients in Fazekas stage 3. While mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on admission was 2.08 ± 1.67 in study group, modified Rankin Scale (mRS) on admission was detected to be mRS1 ( n: 44, 74.5%) and mRS2 ( n: 12, 20.3%) most frequently. The main etiology in PICA was cardioembolism. There was concomitant lesion outside the cerebellum in 45.7%. The posterior inferior cerebellar (PICA) artery was the most commonly affected territory at 62.7%.
#Pica infarct series#
Results: The mean age in our series was 65.2 years, with most being male (57.6%). We retrospectively analyzed the relationship between demographic characteristics, clinical symptomatology, etiological factors, functional condition, vascular distribution, frequency of subcortical white matter lesions (WMLs), and concomitant lesion outside the cerebellum in patients with acute cerebellar infarct (ACI) at time of admission. Materials and Methods: Data were collected from 59 patients admitted to our department during an 8-year period.
#Pica infarct full#
The aim of this study was to assess the full spectrum of the clinical characteristics, neuroimaging findings and neurofunctional analyses of cerebellar infarction, and the relationship between them. Background: Cerebellar infarct is a rare condition with very nonspecific clinical features.
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