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Ischemic Stroke Risk Among Adult Brain Tumor Survivors: Evidence to Guide Practice
CONCLUSION: Nurses play a key role in the assessment, prevention, and identifying individuals who are at risk of AIS during brain tumor survivorship. Engaging patients and their caregivers on minimizing their risks of AIS is crucial in the outpatient setting. Annual surveillance visits that include intracranial artery imaging should be used to identify individuals considered most at risk for developing AIS symptoms.
Source: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - September 9, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Tags: Clinical Nursing Focus Source Type: research

Cancer and Cerebrovascular Disease
AbstractPurpose of ReviewTo review the latest information about the interactions between cancer and cerebrovascular disease.Recent FindingsAdditional data support the finding that both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke are important complications of cancer or its treatment. Reperfusion therapy is being given successfully to patients with stroke complicating cancer.SummaryHemorrhagic stroke may occur with metastatic disease to the brain, coagulopathies from cancer, in particular leukemia, or as complications of chemotherapy. Ischemic stroke also may be a complication of metastatic disease with local invasion of vessels, a pro...
Source: Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports - August 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

RFDCR: Automated brain lesion segmentation using cascaded random forests with dense conditional random fields
Publication date: Available online 11 February 2020Source: NeuroImageAuthor(s): Gaoxiang Chen, Qun Li, Fuqian Shi, Islem Rekik, Li Wang, Zhifang PanSegmentation of brain lesions from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is an important step for disease diagnosis, surgical planning, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, due to noise, motion, and partial volume effects, automated segmentation of lesions from MRI is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a two-stage supervised learning framework for automatic brain lesion segmentation. Specifically, in the first stage, intensity-based statistical features, template-...
Source: NeuroImage - February 11, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Increasing risks of ischemic stroke in oral cancer patients treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy: a nationwide cohort study
International Journal of Neuroscience, Ahead of Print.
Source: International Journal of Neuroscience - October 22, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Tags: article Source Type: research

Intravascular lymphoma mimicking vasculitis
This report documents the presence of intravascular lymphoma diagnosed on a brain biopsy in a 60-year-old man. He initially presented 6months before brain biopsy with chest pain and hypotension, warranting coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Four months later, he presented with signs attributed to a stroke (diaphoresis, slumped over in a chair and left hand weakness). He subsequently developed a sudden onset wide-based gait, left leg numbness, word finding difficulties and worsening confusion. A MRI study showed multiple infarcts in the brain, including cerebellum. Invasive angiogram suggested vasculitis. He was started ...
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience - November 10, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research