Prognostic evaluation of branch atheromatous disease in the pons using carotid artery ultrasonography

In the 2017 fiscal year, stroke was the 3rd leading cause of death in Japan, after malignant neoplasms and heart diseases, according to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan.1 The most common type of stroke is ischemic stroke, and a large-scale epidemiologic survey on ischemic stroke in Japan, conducted from 1999 to 2000, found that, within this category, lacunar infarcts were the most common (36%), followed by atherothrombotic infarcts (31%), cardioembolic infarcts (20%), and undifferentiated types of ischemic stroke (6%).

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - May 10, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Seiya Takahashi, Yumika Kokudai, Shinji Kurokawa, Hideyo Kasai, Ryuta Kinno, Yuriko Inoue, Hiromitsu Ezure, Hiroshi Moriyama, Kenjiro Ono, Naruhito Otsuka, Yasuhiko Baba Source Type: research