Acute multiple brain infarcts (AMBI)

Evidence-based neurology checklist on acute multiple brain infarcts (ambi): Type 1 These occur with lacunar strokes They account for about 30% of cases They are due to artery-to-artery embolism or vasculitis Type 2 Causes Significance

Type 1

  • These occur with lacunar strokes
  • They account for about 30% of cases
  • They are due to artery-to-artery embolism or vasculitis

Type 2

Causes

Significance

References

  1. Caso V, Budak K, Georgiadis D, Schuknecht B, Baumgartner RW. Clinical significance of detection of multiple acute brain infarcts on diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging. JNNP 2005; 76:514-518.
  2. Akhtar T, Shahjouei S, Zand R. Etiologies of simultaneous cerebral infarcts in multiple arterial territories: A simple literature-based pooled analysis. Neurol India 2019; 67:692-695.
  3. Sun LL, Tang WX, Tian M, Zhang L, Liu ZJ. Clinical manifestations and mechanisms of autoimmune disease-related multiple cerebral infarcts. Cell Transplant 2019; 28:1045-1052. 
  4. Wen HM, Lam WW, Rainer T, et al. Multiple acute cerebral infarcts on diffusion-weighted imaging and risk of recurrent stroke. Neurology 2004; 63:1317-1319.

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