CHICAGO — Subclinical brain infarcts and white matter hyperintensities on MRI of stroke-free patients are associated with double the rate of functional decline, a new study shows. "We suspected that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The portable MRI detected a high percentage of stroke-related infarct. Hyperfine has “practical advantages” over ...

In an A-fib cohort with high use of oral anticoagulation, new brain infarcts—most clinically silent—are commonly detected on MRI. And their presence is associated with small declines in cognitive ...

In animal studies, researchers at Johns Hopkins have effectively used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure with 94 percent accuracy the size and amount of heart muscle damaged by a heart attack ...

BERLIN, Germany—Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are more likely than similar individuals without the arrhythmia to have brain infarcts detected on MRI, an analysis of the Swiss-AF cohort study ...

Watershed Infarction: Flair axial MRI scans. Note the large bright signal in the right basal ganglia and internal capsule. Although watershed infarcts are most often thought of as areas between two ...

Dr. Scott B. Silverman: A 68-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of worsening confusion. The patient had a history of hypertension and coronary artery disease. A myocardial infarction ...

The occurrence of silent brain infarcts doubles the risk of future clinical stroke, but little is known about the pathophysiology of or risk factors associated with such infarcts. In the first ...

Venous sinus thrombosis is a relatively elusive diagnosis. Clinical presentation is extremely variable, ranging from nonspecific findings, such as headache, nausea, or vomiting, to focal neurologic ...

In animal studies, researchers at Johns Hopkins have effectively used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure with 94 percent accuracy the size and amount of heart muscle damaged by a heart attack ...