known as lacunar strokes. Detecting silent strokes can be challenging as they do not present with obvious symptoms. However, some subtle signs that may indicate a silent stroke include balance ...

16 Lacunar strokes are considered as a common cause of cognitive impairment ... to evaluate interventions that may prevent or mitigate the wide spectrum of clinical symptoms related to SVD.

Given the increased risk of subsequent stroke in patients with incidental lacunar infarcts, it could be argued that antiplatelet therapy should be initiated for prevention. However, evidence from ...

Sudden onset of symptoms (minutes) was recorded in 35.6% of patients ... and thalamus in 2.9%. With regard to stroke subtype, lacunar infarction was diagnosed in 33 patients and non-lacunar stroke in ...

Methods: Ninety three patients were identified showing subcortical or brainstem DWI lesions <1.5 cm in diameter within a maximum of 7 days from the onset of stroke symptoms ... patients presented ...

Thereafter, she presented to the emergency department with hemiparesis concerning for ischaemic stroke and was administered tissue plasminogen activator. Her brain imaging showed no ischaemic injury ...

Among participants with retinopathy at baseline, the incidences of cerebral and lacunar infarct at follow-up were 37.7% and 35.8%, respectively. By contrast, these incidences in participants ...

Haemorrhagic and ischaemic strokes are the two subtypes of stroke. Bell’s palsy usually presents with an isolated facial nerve palsy. A lacunar infarct involving the lower pons is a rare cause of ...

The consequences of small vessel disease on the brain parenchyma are mainly lesions located in the subcortical structures such as lacunar infarcts ... and have a crucial role in at least three fields: ...