Table 3.
Main series of cerebral infarcts in the territory of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) reported in the literature
| First author, year [reference] | Patients | Most frequent clinical findings | Aetiology | Frequency total infarcts |
Frequency total stroke |
In-hospital mortality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinkel, 1984 [12] | 34 | Homonymous hemianopsia 76%, limb weakness 47% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Pessin, 1987 [19] | 41* | Homonymous hemianopsia 61%, sensory deficits 20%, limb weakness 15% | Unknown 27%, cardioembolic 24% | NA | NA | 5% |
| Servan, 1992 [23] | 76 | Homonymous hemianopsia 84%, sensory deficits 32% | Unknown 27%, cardioembolic 35% | NA | NA | NA |
| Bogousslavsky, 1993 [24] | 70 | NA | Large artery atherosclerosis 66%, cardio- embolism 21%, small-artery disease 16% | NA | NA | NA |
| Milandre, 1994 [21] | 82 | Homonymous hemianopsia 43%, sensory deficits 46%, limb weakness 34% | Unknown 11%, cardioembolic 18% | NA | 4.2% | 7% |
| Brandt, 1995 [26] | 127 | Homonymous hemianopsia 74%, sensory deficits 29%, limb weakness 28% | Unknown 20%, cardioembolic 28% | NA | NA | 0% |
| Steinke, 1997 [22] | 74* | Homonymous hemianopsia 62%, sensory deficits 15%, limb weakness 21% | Unknown 24%, intrinsic PCA disease 30% cardioembolic 31% |
1.3% | 1% | NA |
| Yamamoto, 1999 [18] | 79 | Homonymous hemianopsia 84%, sensory deficits 15%, limb weakness 29% | Proximal arterial disease 32% cardioembolism 41% |
NA | NA | 3% |
| Cals, 2002 [27] | 117* | Hemianopsia 78%, limb weakness 12%, sensory deficits 12% | Unknown 32%, cardioembolism 43.5% | NA | 3.5% | 0% |
| Kumral, 2004 [20] | 137 | Intrinsic PCA disease 26%, proximal large artery disease 24%, cardioembolism 17% |
NA | NA | 7% | |
| Lee, 2009 [13] | 205 | Atherosclerosis 42%, cardioembolic 20% | NA | NA | NA | |
| Ntaios, 2011 [31] | 185 | Pure PCA†: cardioembolism 39%, unknown 22% PCA-plus‡: cardioembolism 63.4% |
8.1% NA |
8.2% 25.4% |
NA | |
| Present series, 2011 | 232 | Homonymous hemianopsia 41%, sensory deficits 51%, limb weakness 39% | Lacunar 34.5%, atherosclerosis 29.3% cardioembolism 21.6% | 8.6% | 6.1% | 3.9% |
*Pure superficial PCA territory infarction.
† Pure PCA: cortical or cortical and deep PCA infarcts.
‡ PCA-plus: cortical or cortical and deep infarcts coincident with infarct(s) outside the PCA territory -posterior or anterior circulation.
NA: not applicable.