ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2016
The association of insular stroke with lesion volume.
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- Isolated insular stroke: topography is the answer with respect to outcome and cardiac involvement.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Direct Mechanical Thrombectomy Versus Prior Bridging Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Neural network bases of thematic semantic processing in language production.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2022Article
- Neural regions underlying object and action naming: Complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia.Aphasiology · 2022Article
- Speech apraxia and oral apraxia: association or dissociation? A multivariate lesion-symptom mapping study in acute stroke patients.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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- Stroke Severity, and Not Cerebral Infarct Location, Increases the Risk of Infection.Translational stroke research · 2020Article
- Amino Acid Biosignature in Plasma among Ischemic Stroke Subtypes.BioMed research international · 2019Article
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- Prognostic Significance of Infarct Size and Location: The Case of Insular Stroke.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Contemporary Approaches to the Management of Post-stroke Apraxia of Speech.Seminars in speech and language · 2018Review
- Activity associated with speech articulation measured through direct cortical recordings.Brain and language · 2017Article
- Important considerations in lesion-symptom mapping: Illustrations from studies of word comprehension.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- Ownership illusions in patients with body delusions: Different neural profiles of visual capture and disownership.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2017Article
- Ischemic Strokes Due to Large-Vessel Occlusions Contribute Disproportionately to Stroke-Related Dependence and Death: A Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2017Review
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Abstract
The insula has been implicated in many sequelae of stroke. It is the area most commonly infarcted in people with post-stroke arrhythmias, loss of thermal sensation, hospital acquired pneumonia, and apraxia of speech. We hypothesized that some of these results reflect the fact that: (1) ischemic strokes that involve the insula are larger than strokes that exclude the insula (and therefore are associated with more common and persistent deficits); and (2) insular involvement is a marker of middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. We analyzed MRI scans of 861 patients with acute ischemic hemispheric strokes unselected for functional deficits, and compared infarcts involving the insula to infarcts not involving the insula using t-tests for continuous variables and chi square tests for dichotomous variables. Mean infarct volume was larger for infarcts including the insula (n = 232) versus excluding the insula (n = 629): 65.8 ± 78.8 versus 10.2 ± 15.9 cm(3) (p < 0.00001). Even when we removed lacunar infarcts, mean volume of non-lacunar infarcts that included insula (n = 775) were larger than non-lacunar infarcts (n = 227) that excluded insula: 67.0 cm(3) ± 79.2 versus 11.5 cm(3) ± 16.7 (p < 0.00001). Of infarcts in the 90th percentile for volume, 87% included the insula (χ(2) = 181.8; p < 0.00001). Furthermore, 79.0% infarcts due to MCA occlusion included the insula; 78.5% of infarcts without MCA occlusion excluded the insula (χ(2) = 93.1; p < 0.0001). The association between insular damage and acute or chronic sequelae likely often reflects the fact that insular infarct is a marker of large infarcts caused by occlusion of the MCA more than a specific role of the insula in a range of functions. Particularly in acute stroke, some deficits may also be due to ischemia of the MCA or ICA territory caused by large vessel occlusion.
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