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Ischemic Stroke in Adults

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Stroke is a neurological deficit attributed to an acute injury of the central nervous system. Imaging plays a key role in evaluating acute stroke patients, guiding treatment and clinical management. Before treatment, it is necessary to exclude intracranial hemorrhage. Imaging of the acute stroke patient before endovascular therapy is necessary to determine the presence of an embolus/thrombus that is amenable to intra-arterial thrombolysis and/or mechanical thrombectomy. Brain perfusion imaging provides information on cerebral hemodynamics

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    Felipe Torres Pacheco MD, PhD & Antônio José da Rocha MD, PhD

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Pacheco, F.T., da Rocha, A.J. (2016). Ischemic Stroke in Adults. In: Hoffmann Nunes, R., Abello, A., Castillo, M. (eds) Critical Findings in Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27987-9_4

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