August 13, 2009 — A new study shows that asymptomatic lacunar infarcts are a common incidental finding during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in community-dwelling people 60 to 64 years old. In this ...

Lacunar Infarction: (Left) T2-weighted axial MRI; (Right) Flair axial MRI. Note the well-demarcated ischemic stroke in the region of the posterior limb of the right internal capsule. GP = Globus ...

A lacunar stroke, also called a lacunar infarct, occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the deeper portions of the brain becomes blocked. Other types of strokes occur on the surface, or cortex, ...

Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

Insulin resistance and muscle weakness are risk factors for silent lacunar infarcts (SLI), but it is unclear whether they are still independent risk factors when adjusted for each other. In addition, ...

A new study is challenging long-standing assumptions about the causes of lacunar stroke, a common type of ischemic stroke linked to cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD). Researchers found that ...

Lacunar infarcts are a frequent type of stroke caused mainly by cerebral small-vessel disease. The effectiveness of antiplatelet therapy for secondary prevention has not been defined. The participants ...

Researchers tracking patients with mild stroke found that abnormal widening and distortion of brain arteries, not traditional large-artery narrowing, was most strongly linked to progressive ...