title: Unusually prolonged progressing stroke: an expanding anterior cerebral artery infarction.
abstract: Progressive clinical deterioration over a period of weeks coupled with MRI evidence of infarction growth is quite uncommon. In this report, we describe a patient with an occluded left anterior cerebral artery (ACA) at the origin of the A2 segment. His symptoms attributable to a posteriorly located small infarction within the ACA territory slowly progressed during the following 8 weeks. A follow-up MRI revealed that the infarction had expanded to involve the whole region of the left ACA. Occasional patients like ours indicate that stroke is a dynamic disorder with an extremely variable clinical course and state of tissue injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. ayhmgh@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ay
authors.forename: Kayihan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uluç
authors.forename: Ethem M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Arsava
authors.forename: Işil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Saatçi
authors.forename: Okay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Saribaş
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D020243:Infarction, Anterior Cerebral Artery / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male