In 1964, Acheson and Hutchinson reported their observations of 82 patients with what was then referred to as episodes of transient cerebral ischemia. In this study, which took place before ...
Effective CPR, if started immediately with a witnessed arrest can have positive outcomes. If CPR is delayed more than three minutes, global cerebral ischemia—the lack of blood flow to the entire brain ...
Patients with diabetes or hypertension frequently present with small vessel ischemic stroke syndromes. Dubbed lacunar because of the resemblance to a small lake (lacune) deep in the brain on CT ...
Cerebral ischemic injury occurs when blood flow drops below a critical level, resulting in an energy failure. The progressive transformation of hypoperfused viable tissue, the ischemic penumbra, into ...