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Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery
The artery of Percheron (AOP) is a congenital anatomical irregularity of the cerebrovasculature responsible for perfusing the thalamus and midbrain. These defects account for a small percent of all ischemic strokes and present with widely variable symptomatology, ranging from confusion to coma. We p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10517732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37746380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44033 |
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author | Lott, Ronald Zonna, Xavier Nadukudiyil Jose, Aneesha Shin, Justin Roemer, Maximilian Nasir, Asad |
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description | The artery of Percheron (AOP) is a congenital anatomical irregularity of the cerebrovasculature responsible for perfusing the thalamus and midbrain. These defects account for a small percent of all ischemic strokes and present with widely variable symptomatology, ranging from confusion to coma. We present a case of an acute AOP infarct and recovery in a 68-year-old male with atrial fibrillation without anticoagulation. It is our hope that this case report serves to alert diagnosticians to the presence of AOP infarcts, the wide clinical presentation, and the prognosis of this rare and critical type of ischemic stroke. |
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spelling | pubmed-105177322023-09-24 Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery Lott, Ronald Zonna, Xavier Nadukudiyil Jose, Aneesha Shin, Justin Roemer, Maximilian Nasir, Asad Cureus Internal Medicine The artery of Percheron (AOP) is a congenital anatomical irregularity of the cerebrovasculature responsible for perfusing the thalamus and midbrain. These defects account for a small percent of all ischemic strokes and present with widely variable symptomatology, ranging from confusion to coma. We present a case of an acute AOP infarct and recovery in a 68-year-old male with atrial fibrillation without anticoagulation. It is our hope that this case report serves to alert diagnosticians to the presence of AOP infarcts, the wide clinical presentation, and the prognosis of this rare and critical type of ischemic stroke. Cureus 2023-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10517732/ /pubmed/37746380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44033 Text en Copyright © 2023, Lott et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Lott, Ronald Zonna, Xavier Nadukudiyil Jose, Aneesha Shin, Justin Roemer, Maximilian Nasir, Asad Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title | Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title_full | Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title_fullStr | Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title_full_unstemmed | Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title_short | Artery of Percheron Infarct: A Rare Case Presentation and Recovery |
title_sort | artery of percheron infarct: a rare case presentation and recovery |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10517732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37746380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44033 |
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