Pseudoperipheral palsy due to cortical infarction.

We present two cases of isolated hand weakness that were initially thought to be due to lower motor neurone lesions until subsequent MRI confirmed strokes in both. Small strokes are important to identify in order to optimise secondary prevention.

Cerebral microbleeds are associated with lacunar stroke defined clinically and radiologically, independently of white matter lesions.

Background And Purpose: Associations among microbleeds, white matter lesions (WMLs), and small deep infarcts on imaging have been reported. Because many of these imaging infarcts were asymptomatic, the relationship of microbleeds to clinical lacunar stroke is unclear. An association between microbleeds and clinically defined lacunar stroke might suggest a common causal microangiopathy.

Antithrombotic therapy in patients with any form of intracranial haemorrhage: a systematic review of the available controlled studies.

Patients with intracranial haemorrhage may sometimes require antithrombotic drugs or be inadvertently given antithrombotic therapy. We systematically reviewed all published trials comparing any antithrombotic agent with control among patients with any form of intracranial haemorrhage. We extracted data on deaths, recurrent intracranial haemorrhage and functional outcome.

Stroke epidemiology studies have underestimated the frequency of intracerebral haemorrhage. A systematic review of imaging in epidemiological studies.

Introduction: Small primary intracerebral haemorrhages (PICHs) cause mild stroke symptoms and resolve rapidly on CT. Delays in imaging in stroke incidence studies may therefore have inadvertently led to an underestimate of the frequency of small PICHs.

Objective: To determine whether the rate and timing of CT in community-based stroke incidence studies was adequate to determine accurately the proportion of strokes due to PICH.