{"title":"Bilateral Cerebral Infarctions Secondary to Unilateral ICA Stenosis","authors":"Dhananjay Gupta, Karan Sharma, D. Thakkar, Nishchint Jain, Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy, Vipul Gupta","doi":"10.1177/25166085221094667","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 76-year-old diabetic man presented to us with complaints of sudden-onset right-sided weakness for the last 4 days. On evaluation, he was found to have right hemiparesis (Modified Medical Research Council grade 4-/5) along with left leg weakness (4+/5). Neuroimaging revealed acute infarcts in the right anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory and left cerebral external watershed territory. Magnetic resonance (MR) angiogram of the brain showed a hypoplastic right A1-ACA with bilateral A2-ACA arising from the left A1-ACA (bi-hemispheric A1-ACA). MR angiogram of the neck revealed significant left internal carotid artery (ICA) origin stenosis. It was concluded that the origin of right A2-ACA from left ACA was the probable because of right ACA infarcts, along with left cerebral watershed infarcts (embolic phenomenon). This represents a very important variation, as in these cases, even a unilateral ICA stenosis can lead to bilateral ACA stroke and thus necessitates urgent revascularization.","PeriodicalId":93323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of stroke medicine","volume":"5 1","pages":"136 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of stroke medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166085221094667","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 76-year-old diabetic man presented to us with complaints of sudden-onset right-sided weakness for the last 4 days. On evaluation, he was found to have right hemiparesis (Modified Medical Research Council grade 4-/5) along with left leg weakness (4+/5). Neuroimaging revealed acute infarcts in the right anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory and left cerebral external watershed territory. Magnetic resonance (MR) angiogram of the brain showed a hypoplastic right A1-ACA with bilateral A2-ACA arising from the left A1-ACA (bi-hemispheric A1-ACA). MR angiogram of the neck revealed significant left internal carotid artery (ICA) origin stenosis. It was concluded that the origin of right A2-ACA from left ACA was the probable because of right ACA infarcts, along with left cerebral watershed infarcts (embolic phenomenon). This represents a very important variation, as in these cases, even a unilateral ICA stenosis can lead to bilateral ACA stroke and thus necessitates urgent revascularization.