Is A Lacune A Stroke?

“Lacunar stroke” describes a clinical stroke syndrome with the typical symptoms and signs referable to a small subcortical or brain stem lesion. “Lacunar infarct” should refer to a clinical stroke syndrome of lacunar type where the underlying lesion is an infarct on brain-imaging.

Lacunar stroke: acute treatment and secondary prevention

Francesco Arba, MD, PhD, FESO, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy, discusses the latest approaches to lacunar

LACUNAR INFARCT/STROKE

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CBI phenotypes in first-ever ischemic stroke patients

Thomas Meinel, MD, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, shares findings from a cohort study …