Table 2.
Radiological characteristics and embolic signal characteristics.
| Case | Lesions of cerebral infarction | Vasculopathy | HRMRI | UCG | ES (vascular/number) |
Days from stroke to TCD monitoring | Stroke mechanism | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| locations | sizes | number | |||||||
| 1 | Bilateral anterior circulations+posterior
circulation; cortical+ subcortical |
Small | 7 | Normal | ND | Normal | LMCA/27; RMCA/11 | 28 | Hypercoagulability |
| 2 | Bilateral anterior circulations; subcortical |
medium | 4 | Normal | ND | Normal | LMCA/8; RMCA/5 | 5 | Hypercoagulability |
| 3 | Bilateral anterior circulations+posterior
circulation; cortical+ subcortical |
Small+medium | 12 | Normal | Normal | Normal | 0 | 30 | Hypercoagulability |
| 4 | Bilateral anterior circulations+posterior
circulation; Cortical+ subcortical |
Small | >20 | Normal | Normal | Normal | LMCA/7; RMCA/5 | 19 | Hypercoagulability |
| 5 | Bilateral anterior circulations; cortical+ subcortical |
Small | 16 | Normal | ND | mitral valve vegetation | LMCA/0; RMCA/1 | 25 | Cardiac embolism |
| 6 | Bilateral anterior circulations; cortical+ Subcortical+basal ganglion |
Small+medium+large | >20 | Occlusion of bilateral ICAs, bilateral MCAs, and left ACA | ND | Normal | 0 | 30 | Vasculitis |
| 7 | Bilateral anterior circulations; cortical+ subcortical |
Small | >20 | Stenosis of siphon segment of left ICA, bilateral MCAs | Circumferential vessel wall thickening and enhancement of bilateral anterior circulations | Normal | LMCA/12; RMCA/15 | 2 | Vasculitis |
| 8 | Bilateral anterior circulations; subcortical |
Small | 13 | Circumferential vessel wall thickening of bilateral CCAs | ND | Normal | LMCA/2; RMCA/4 | 25 | Vasculitis |
ACA: anterior cerebral artery; CCA: common carotid artery; ICA: internal carotid artery; LMCA: left MCA; MCA: middle cerebral artery; ND: not done; RMCA: right MCA; UCG: ultrasonic cardiogram.