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"name": "Les anticoagulants sont-ils efficaces ?",
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"name": "Quels médicaments sont utilisés pour gérer les symptômes ?",
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"text": "Des médicaments pour la douleur, des antidépresseurs et des antipsychotiques peuvent être prescrits."
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"name": "Quelles complications peuvent survenir après un AVC ?",
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"text": "Les complications incluent des infections, des troubles de la déglutition et des problèmes cognitifs."
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"name": "Les problèmes d'équilibre sont-ils une complication possible ?",
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To describe a case of a medial-type persistent trigeminal artery (PTA) associated with multiple arterial variations....
A 34-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis underwent cranial magnetic resonance (MR) angiography from the aortic arch to the neck region and intracranial region for the evaluation of an unruptured ce...
There was an aberrant right subclavian artery and bicarotid trunk, medial-type left PTA and ipsilateral posterior communicating artery (PCoA) supplying bilateral posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs). Th...
Only 10% of PTAs are classified as the medial type. The association with extremely large ipsilateral PCoA, which supplies the bilateral PCAs, has not been previously reported. Aberrant right subclavia...
The direct aspiration first pass technique (ADAPT) is an effective and safe endovascular treatment for distal medium vessel occlusions (DMVO) of the anterior circulation. Clinical experience with ADAP...
All acute ischemic stroke patients between 2017 and 2022 with primary or secondary DPCAOs in the P2 or P3 segment, that underwent thrombectomy of the DPACO using ADAPT with DACs as frontline therapy, ...
Twenty-four patients with primary (n = 6) or secondary (n = 18) DPCAOs (P2: 21/24; P3: 3/24) were included. Median NIHSS score at admission was 14.5 (IQR 9.5). In all cases, the DPCAO could be reached...
ADAPT appears to be feasible, safe and effective for the treatment of acute DPCAOs in the setting of different occlusion patterns. High revascularization rates without procedural complications can be ...
The optimal management of patients with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion is uncertain. We compared clinical outcomes for endovascular therapy (EVT) versus medical management (MM) in patien...
This multinational case-control study conducted at 27 sites in Europe and North America included consecutive patients with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion presenting within 24 hours of ti...
Of 1023 patients, 589 (57.6%) were male with median (interquartile range) age of 74 (64-82) years. The median (interquartile range) National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale was 6 (3-10). The occlusi...
In patients with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion, EVT was associated with similar odds of disability by ordinal modified Rankin Scale, higher odds of early National Institutes of Health s...
The Cerebral arterial circle presents multiple individual anatomical configurations which are of the highest importance regarding the pathological processes for intracranial aneurysms development. Pre...
Two different populations were retrospectively reviewed. The first population, without aneurysm, for which TOF MRI sequences were reviewed. The second population with patients harboring basilar tip an...
The anatomical and flow configurations of P1 and Pcomm have been reviewed in 467 patients without aneurysms and 35 patients with aneurysms. We identified a significant association between the flow pat...
Non-modal basilar tip bifurcation and flow asymmetry of P1 segments are associated with an increased risk of basilar tip aneurysm. These findings highlight the importance of analyzing MRI-TOF of the p...
We describe a case of isolated trochlear nerve palsy caused by an unruptured posterior cerebral artery (PCA) aneurysm in an 82-year-old male who consulted an ophthalmologist after developing diplopia....
We describe our experience performing encephalo-duro-pericranio synangiosis for the parieto-occipital region (EDPS-p) as a treatment for moyamoya disease (MMD) with hemodynamic disturbances caused by ...
From 2004 to 2020, 60 hemispheres of 50 patients with MMD (38/50 females, age 1-55 years) underwent EDPS-p as a treatment for hemodynamic disturbances in the parieto-occipital region. A skin incision ...
Perioperative infarction occurred in 7/60 hemispheres (11.7%). The transient ischemic symptoms observed preoperatively disappeared in 39/41 hemispheres (95.1%) during the follow-up period (12-187 mont...
EDPS-p seems to be an effective surgical treatment for patients with MMD who suffer hemodynamic disturbances caused by posterior cerebral artery lesions....
The aim of the study was to determine if migraine is associated with fetal-type posterior cerebral artery (PCA) in patients with ischemic stroke....
In this cross-sectional study, patients with acute ischemic stroke were enrolled from two hospitals. The history of migraine headache was evaluated during a face-to-face interview. The variants of fet...
In 750 patients qualified for analysis, 85 (11.3%) were determined with migraine. Patients with migraine had a higher proportion of female gender (51.8% vs. 31.0%, p < 0.001), hypertension (72.9% vs. ...
Migraine was associated with fetal-type PCA in patients with ischemic stroke. This finding supported the hypothesis that vascular mechanisms get involved in the migraine-stroke association....
The posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is key in supplying blood to the occipital lobes and significant portions of the thalamus. Some individuals present with a 'fetal-type' posterior cerebral artery (f...
MRI scans from 84 patients with no detectable radiological evidence of brain pathology were retrospectively analyzed. We investigated the association between PCA type (normal vs. fetal) and perfusion ...
Hyperperfusion in the medial occipital cortex and thalami was absent in all patients with fPCA, but present in 69% of those with normal PCA. In patients with unilateral fPCA, hyperperfusion was exclus...
The study suggests a consistent relationship between PCA type and ASL perfusion patterns in the medial occipital cortex and thalami. Further research is warranted to explore the physiological underpin...
Whether endovascular therapy (EVT) added on best medical management (BMM), as compared to BMM alone, is beneficial in acute ischemic stroke with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion is unknown...
We conducted a multicenter international observational study of consecutive stroke patients admitted within 6 hours from symptoms onset in 26 stroke centers with isolated occlusion of the first (P1) o...
Overall, 752 patients were included (167 and 585 patients in the BMM+EVT and BMM alone groups, respectively). Median age was 74 (interquartile range, 63-82) years, 329 (44%) patients were female, medi...
In this observational study of patients with proximal posterior cerebral artery occlusion, EVT was not associated with good or excellent functional outcome as compared to BMM alone. However, EVT was a...
Patients with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion (iPCAO) represent up to 6% of all acute ischemic stroke patients. Acute revascularization therapies for these patients were not tested in ran...
A systematic search of MEDLINE, Web of Science, CENTRAL, Scopus (inception-03/2022) was conducted for studies reporting 3‑month outcome, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) and/or successful re...
Fifteen studies reporting a total of 461 iPCAO patients who underwent EVT were included. Excellent and favorable 3‑month outcome proportions were 36% (95% confidence interval, CI 20-51%) and 57% (95% ...
These results support the feasibility and safety of EVT in iPCAO, but do not show an outcome benefit with EVT compared to best medical treatment. Randomized trials are needed to evaluate treatment ben...