Mechanism of stroke in patients with #ICAD
✅Thrombotic occlusion
✅Artery to artery embolism
✅Hemodynamic impair
✅Branch atheromatous disease j-stroke.org/journal/view.p…
High-resolution vessel wall MRI (vwMRI) of the intracranial arteries is an emerging diagnostic imaging technique
🔹link.springer.com/article/10.100…
🔹j-stroke.org/journal/view.p…
Today it is a useful tool to evaluate ICAD, differential diagnosis, even follow up
Recent trails like #WEAVE, WOVEN and CASSISS have shown the safety of #PTAS with⬇️ rate of stroke and death versus aggressive medical treatment with #refined inclusion/exclusion #criteria and experienced operators strokejournal.org/article/S1052-…
#MyRIAD contemporary cohort of symptomatic ICAD w/intensive medical management
Risk of recurrent clinical stroke: 5% at 6-8w
Unable to define a higher risk group based on abnormal hemodynamic & plaque instability imaging biomarkers strokejournal.org/article/S1052-…
✅ICAD is still associated with the highest rates of recurrent stroke of any stroke subtype
✅Future research should look for optimal biomarkers
✅Current management should probably be tailored to the underlying stroke mechanism (ie: embolic vs hemodynamic)
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👉⬆️T1/2 allows single bolus dosing and⬆️clot exposure to TNK
👉Higher affinity to fibrin-rich clots & + potent/faster clot #lysis vs alteplase
👉 < consumption of fibrinogen/plasminogen/ a2- antiplasmin👉⬇️systemic fibrinolytic effect👉⏬risk for bleeding
#WeekendLecture #TNK
First analysis in stroke patients was a #dose-scalation safety study
There was no #symptomatic ICHs in dosis of 0.1-0.2-0.4mg/kg, and 15% (2 of 13) in 0.5mg/kg
No differences in clinical outcomes bit.ly/3DNHamV
#Genetics is involved in several #stroke related conditions, such as small vessel disease #SVD, aneurysms, dissections, cavernomas, and intracranial #hemorrhages
✅1,5% of cerebral #SVD are #monogenic disorders
✅AR, AD or X-linked
☝🏼Absence of family history doesn't rule out diagnosis because of
👉de novo mutation
👉reduced expression or
👉incomplete penetrance
✅ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ST…
✅early onset stroke without vascular RFs
✅systemic features and neuroimaging of an specific monogenic disorder
✅consanguinity
✅negative work up for other causes of SVD
#CAD causes ~ 10-20% of #strokes
Atherosclerosis occurs most frequently at carotid #bifurcation, an area of low vessel-wall shear stress and oscillatory/turbulent blood flow
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#WeekendLecture #CAD
Endothelial dysfunction
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Inflammatory response to Lp retention in arterial wall
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Accelerated accumulation of Lp in subendothelial matrix
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Macrophages
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VSCM migrate/proliferate to fibroblast-like cells👉 production of EC matrix atm.amegroups.com/article/view/7…
#WeekendLecture #CAD
Stroke Mechanisms
✅#artery_to_artery embolization: retinal (amaurosis fugax) or cerebral circulation
✅#thrombosis in situ
✅#Flow reduction in high grade stenosis: #watershed infarcts, repetitive and brief TIAs (ie limb shaking)
☝️#Stroke clinicians are routinely asked by patients and families regarding prognosis.
🧠The cognitive process underlying prognostication is #complex, poorly understood, and sometime #biased by personal experiences
#Fact: Clinicians, even those with expertise in stroke, perform poorly in predicting clinical outcomes
In this case-based study, overall accuracy for predicting death or disability at discharge was <20%😩 #JURaSSIC n.neurology.org/content/81/5/4…
#Pregnancy and #puerperium confer an ⬆️ risk for ischemic as well as hemorrhagic stroke, with incidence rates being 3-fold higher as compared with nonpregnant women
Radiological construct: small (2–10 mm diameter) round or ovoid #hypointense foci with associated #blooming with enhanced visibility on #MRI sequences sensitive to #susceptibility effects