Publications by authors named "Ashank Bansal"

Background: The term 'Capsular warning syndrome (CWS)' refers to recurrent, stereotypical transient ischemic attacks, either motor, sensory or both, without cortical symptoms or signs. Of these patients, 42-71% go on to develop infarcts. There are no defined treatment guidelines for this lesser known entity.

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Background And Purpose: Various neurological complications have been reported in association with COVID-19. We report our experience of COVID-19 with stroke at a single center over a period of eight months spanning 1 March to 31 October 2020.

Methods: We recruited all patients admitted to Internal Medicine with an acute stroke, who also tested positive for COVID-19 on RTPCR.

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This article focuses on a marked drop in volumes in the lockdown period during the COVID-19 pandemic across all modalities X-ray, sonography, CT scan and MRI scans and compares the volumes of data between a private and public hospital in Mumbai. This trend has been witnessed globally also. Even with easing of lockdown this has not reflected in an increase in numbers.

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Left atrial appendage aneurysm (LAAA) is a rare congenital anomaly, usually identified incidentally on a chest radiograph performed for another indication. Our case is that of an 11-month-old male infant who was incidentally diagnosed as having a giant LAAA while being clinically evaluated for pneumonia. The lesion was accurately diagnosed on preoperative, non-contrast, free-breathing cardiac MRI (CMR).

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We report a rare case of ectopic pregnancy occurring in the scar of a previous caesarean section, diagnosed by ultrasonography and confirmed by 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging of pelvis. We present the clinical details and imaging findings, followed by discussion of the etiology, pathogenesis, and imaging of this condition.

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Posttraumatic intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst is an exceedingly uncommon complication of skull fracture in childhood with only about twenty-one cases described in literature till now. We report 2 such cases of intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst of occipital bone in two 17- and 21-year-old males presenting with headache with history of occipital bone fracture in childhood and briefly discuss its pathogenesis and differential diagnosis.

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