Drip and ship and mothership models of mechanical thrombectomy result in similar outcomes in acute ischemic stroke of the anterior circulation.

Background: Stroke therapy has been transformed in recent years due to the availability of thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy (MT). Whether transferring the patient directly to a comprehensive stroke center (CSC, mothership model) is better than taking them to a primary stroke center (PSC) and then to a CSC for MT (drip and ship) is unclear but has important implications. We compared the performance of both models in a district of the Basque country, Spain.

Unilateral or bilateral punctate hippocampal hyperintensities on DW-MRI: seizures, amnesia, or both?

The presence of small hippocampal hyperintense lesions on diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI can respond to different etiologies and represents a challenge where clinical judgment is imperative, since therapeutic approach may be quite different.We here report three patients with similar neuroradiological findings, i.e.

Pearls & Oy-sters: chronic mumps meningoencephalitis with low CSF glucose and acute hydrocephalus in an adult.

Chronic lymphocytic meningoencephalitis with low glucose and increased adenosine deaminase (ADA) levels in the CSF together with hydrocephalus represents a diagnostic challenge of varied etiology and only seldom is due to a viral (mumps) infection.

Intracerebral hematoma complicating herpes simplex encephalitis.

Objectives: To describe two patients who developed an intracranial hematoma as a complication of temporal lobe encephalitis due to herpes simplex type 1 virus, and to review the literature.

Patients And Methods: The first patient, a 45-year-old woman developed a brain hematoma in the location of the encephalitic lesion on day 9 after the onset of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) that required surgical evacuation. The second patient, a 53-year-old woman was being treated for HSE; on day 8 after admission a temporal lobe hematoma with midline shift was disclosed due to persistent headache.

Migraine, stroke and epilepsy: underlying and interrelated causes, diagnosis and treatment.

Migraine, epilepsy and stroke are highly prevalent neurological disorders, often comorbid. They share diverse pathophysiological mechanisms that explain the use of similar drugs on certain occasions (i.e.