Vascular occlusion syndromes

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Clinical features

Occlusion Symptoms
Anterior choroidal artery occlusion
  • Full triad of contralateral hemiplegia, hemihypesthesia, & homonymous hemianopsia
  • Hemiparesis (most common symptom)
  • Hemisensory loss, transient but possibly severe at onset
  • Visual defects include homonymous upper-quadrantanopia, hemianopsia, or upper and lower-quadrant sector anopsia
Recurrent artery of Heubner occlusion
  • Expressive aphasia
  • Mild hemiparesis
Anterior communicating artery occlusion
  • Contralateral weakness & sensory loss, mostly in lower limbs
  • Apraxia
  • Anosmia
  • Possible urinary incontinence
Middle cerebral artery occlusion
  • Hemiparesis
  • Hemisensory loss
  • Hemineglect
  • Aphasia
  • Homonymous hemianopsia
  • Gerstmann syndrome w/ dominant parietal lobe infarct
Anterior cerebral artery occlusion
  • Contralateral hemiparesis & hemisensory loss (lower limb more affected)
  • Extrapyramidal syndromes
  • Gait apraxia
  • Abulia
  • Incontinence
  • Akinetic mutism
  • Depression