Neuroprotection by ischemic preconditioning has been confirmed by many studies, but the precise mechanism remains unclear. In a study released in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 11 ...

Also called ischemic stroke, a cerebral infarction occurs as a result of disrupted blood flow to the brain due to problems with the blood vessels that supply it. A lack of adequate blood supply to ...

The effects of hyperglycemia on the injured brain have been studied in both animals and humans. Hyperglycemia has been associated with increased cerebral lactate resulting in local brain tissue ...

We enrolled patients with occlusion of the intracranial internal carotid artery or proximal middle cerebral artery who had last been known to be well 6 to 24 hours earlier and who had a mismatch ...

We assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with proximal cerebral vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation and a large infarct (as defined by an Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomographic ...

Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarction: Flair axial MRIs. Note the bright signal in the distribution of the right posterior cerebral artery. If one looks closely, one can also see a small infarct ...