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Rapidly Progressive Dementia Due to Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion with Infarction of the Total Length of the Corpus Callosum
Author(s) -
Rabinstein Alejandro A.,
Romano Jose G.,
Forteza Alejandro M.,
Koch Sebastian
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2004.tb00236.x
Subject(s) - medicine , splenium , corpus callosum , occlusion , internal carotid artery , cardiology , dementia , infarction , radiology , anatomy , myocardial infarction , magnetic resonance imaging , white matter , disease
The authors report a patient with rapidly progressive cognitive declinedue to bilateral internal carotid artery occlusion (ICAO) resulting inmultiple pathologically proven cerebral infarctions including the entire length of the corpus callosum. The gradual evolution of the deficits wassuggestive of hemodynamic ischemia. Bilateral ICAO should be consideredin the differential diagnosis of patients with rapidly cognitive decline.Although ICAO commonly spares the splenium, complete callosalinfarction is possible in the presence of bilateral ICAO.