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Cerebrovascular Disease

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Things that can lead to a stroke ?   * Thrombosis, embolism & hemorrhage  
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Arterial area that is at greatest risk for infarcts ?   * Watershed area between the anterior and middle cerebral artery  
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Reduction in blood flow that lasts longer than several seconds = ?   * Cerebral Ischemia  
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Cessation of flow lasting longer than several seconds = ?   * Cerebral Infarct  
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Spontaneous rapid restoration of flow with symptoms subsiding within 24 hours = ?   * Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)  
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When the ENTIRE brain is affected from ischemia ?   * GLOBAL cerebral ischemia  
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Usu cause of global cerebral ischemia ?   * Severe HYPOtensive state  
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Global Cerebral Ischemia things that can happen ?   * Can see mild confusion, with full recovery of tissues..... * can see widespread neuronal death that puts people in a vegatative state..... *  
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Global Cerebral Ischemia morphology ?   * swollen brain with wide gyri, narrow sulci, poor gray-white demarcation.... * 12-24hrs = see red neurons, eosinophils, and neutrophils... * 24hrs-2wks = Macrophages and necrosis.... * 2+weeks = more necrosis  
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Cells that are most susceptible to global ischemia ?   * Pyramidal cells of hippocampus, (Sommer sector), Purkinje cells of cerebellum & cortical pyramidal neurons  
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Global Cx Presentation = ?   * can really see anything since the entire brain is affected  
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Some things that can mimic stroke ?   * Seizures, intrcranial tumors, bleeds, migraine, fever/infection  
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Pathophysiology of Ischemic Stroke = ?   * Acute occlusion of intracranial vessel, that can result in brain death in 4 - 10 mins from zero bd flow.... * Ischemic penumbra = look larger, but once swelling goes down, we see a smaller area  
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2 Pathways to focal infarctions = ?   * Necrotic pathway = No ATP made by cells ..... * Apoptotic pathway = cell apoptosis/death  
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Can worsen Brain Injuries ?   * Hyperglycemia and Fever  
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Common causes that cause Ischemic Stroke ?   * Thrombosis = Lacunar Stroke (From HTN).... * Emboli Occlusion (from MI/AFib/etc)  
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Uncommon causes ?   * Hypercoagulable disorders = such as antiphospholipid syndromes, Protein S Deficiency, and Bernard–Soulier syndrome  
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When only a portion of the brain is affected ?   * FOCAL Cerebral Ischemia  
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Usu causes of Focal Ischemia ?   * Thrombis = Bifurcation of arteries is common area..... * Cerebral arterial occlusion ( Adequacy of Circle of Willis may contribute to why some areas still work)  
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Focal Stroke Morphology of Hemorrhagic Infarct ?   * looks like a black splotch on the brain and see liquifactive necrosis after 10 days - 3 weeks  
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Nonhemorrhagic (pale, white, bland) infarct Morphology ?   * same, but see no extraversion of blood and 2-3 weeks – liquifaction, which is earlier liquidfaction  
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Hypertensive Cerebrovascular Disease ?   * Lacunar infarcts = Deep penetrating arteries & arterioles to basal ganglia, hemispheric white matter, brainstem – bc long , skinny, small A’s ...... * Slit hemorrhages  
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Slit Hemorrhages = ?   Slit hemorrhages = Rupture of small-caliber penetrating vessels --> small hemorrhages (see brown Macros)... * can be silent and if you get enough of these, you can get multi infarct dementia  
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Stroke Morphology = ?   * Depends on where the stroke came from, so look at the Sx and trace to its artery.... * Thalamus = see Pain.... * Cerebellar = N/V, dizziness, etc... * Frontal = personality change  
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Hypertensive Encephalopathy ?   * Can cause diffuse cerebral dysfunction – h/a, confusion, vomiting, seizures, coma...... * Massive Hypertensive Intracranial Hemorrhage (another HTN cerbrovasc. disease)  
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Intracerebral (Intraparenchymal) Hemorrhage and Gross = ?   * HTN is the most common cause... * Gross: see massive bleed in the brain  
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Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy = ?   * deposits of amyloid and use congo red stain to see apple-green birefringence... * Deposits weaken vasulcar wall to allow possible hemorrhage  
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CADASIL = ?   * Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) .... * Heriditary form of a stroke from mutation in NOTCH 3.. * Look for in ppl w/ stroke under 20-30  
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Conditions associated with Saccular (Berry) aneurysms ?   * Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (APKD) ... * The rest are tissue disorders  
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When a Saccular Aneurysms rupture ?   * Get a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage... * story in class was a 34 y/o in the shower and just falls over  
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Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) = ?   *Is a vascular malformation in which the Artery goes straight in to the vein, so there is no reduction in pressure causing them to rupture...* Also see Tangled network of wormlike vascular channels...* Usu 1-30yo and complain of new WORST headache of life  
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