The Correlations of Clinical Outcomes and Vascular Morphology With Infarct Patterns in Middle Cerebral Arterial Occlusion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the clinical outcomes among various infarct patterns and to investigate the associations between the morphological parameters of contralateral middle cerebral artery (cMCA) M₁ segment and infarct patterns in ischemic stroke attributed to large vessel occlusion (LVO) in M₁ segment caused by intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD).

Methods

Patients with stroke attributed to M₁-ICAD-LVO were enrolled. The infarct patterns were categorized into artery-to-artery embolism (AAE), large infarct, borderzone infarct (BZI), and perforating artery infarction (PAI). The morphological parameters of cMCA-M₁ segment included proximal and distal diameter, arc, and chord length. The tortuosity index of cMCA-M₁ seg

SUBMITTER: Cai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12848514 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature