Occlusion
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Symptoms
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Anterior choroidal artery occlusion
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- 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
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Recurrent artery of Heubner occlusion
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- Expressive aphasia
- Mild hemiparesis
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Anterior communicating artery occlusion
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- Contralateral weakness & sensory loss, mostly in lower limbs
- Apraxia
- Anosmia
- Possible urinary incontinence
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Middle cerebral artery occlusion
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- Hemiparesis
- Hemisensory loss
- Hemineglect
- Aphasia
- Homonymous hemianopsia
- Gerstmann syndrome w/ dominant parietal lobe infarct
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Anterior cerebral artery occlusion
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- Contralateral hemiparesis & hemisensory loss (lower limb more affected)
- Extrapyramidal syndromes
- Gait apraxia
- Abulia
- Incontinence
- Akinetic mutism
- Depression
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