Unusually prolonged progressing stroke: An expanding anterior cerebral artery infarction

Ay H., Uluc K., Arsava E., Saatci I., Saribas O.

CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES, vol.13, no.1, pp.64-66, 2002 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 13 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2002
  • Doi Number: 10.1159/000047748
  • Journal Name: CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.64-66
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Progressive clinical deterioration over a period of weeks coupled with MRI evidence of infarction growth is quite uncommon. In this report, we describe a patient with an occluded left anterior cerebral artery (ACA) at the origin of the A2 segment. His symptoms attributable to a posteriorly located small infarction within the ACA territory slowly progressed during the following 8 weeks. A follow-up MRI revealed that the infarction had expanded to involve the whole region of the left ACA. Occasional patients like ours indicate that stroke is a dynamic disorder with an extremely variable clinical course and state of tissue injury. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel.