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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2023

Secondary neurodegeneration of ipsilateral substantia nigra in acute ischemic stroke.

Marialuisa Zedde, Ilaria Grisendi, Federica Assenza, Manuela Napoli, Claudio Moratti, Franco Valzania, Rosario Pascarella

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marialuisa ZeddeNeurology Unit, Stroke Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy. zedde.marialuisa@ausl.re.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7530-818X
Ilaria GrisendiNeurology Unit, Stroke Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Federica AssenzaNeurology Unit, Stroke Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Manuela NapoliNeuroradiology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Claudio MorattiNeuroradiology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Franco ValzaniaNeurology Unit, Stroke Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4887-1692
Rosario PascarellaNeuroradiology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0512-9298
Azienda Sanitaria Unità Locale di Reggio Emilia · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSecondary neurodegeneration after stroke is a complex phenomenon affecting remote and synaptically linked cerebral areas. The involvement of the substantia nigra in this process has been rarely described in infarcts involving the striatum.

methodsWe are presenting a case of ischemic stroke involving the right striatum due to atrial fibrillation and associated in a few days with the neuroimaging finding of hyperintensity of the ipsilateral substantia nigra and striatonigral tract on T2-fluid attenuated inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted imaging sequences of brain magnetic resonance imaging. This finding was not related to clinical manifestations and substantially disappeared within 3 months from stroke onset. DISCUSSION: The pathophysiology of secondary degeneration of the substantia nigra is poorly understood and it relies on animal models and autoptic studies. The main putative mechanism is not ischemic but excitotoxic with a different role of the internal and external globus pallidus and a different effect on the pars compacta and pars reticularis of the substantia nigra. In animal models, inflammatory mechanisms seem play a role only in the late phase. The main studies on humans were presented in detail.

conclusionsA better understanding of the secondary degeneration of the substantia nigra has the potentiality to offer a chance for neuroprotection in acute stroke, but further studies are needed.

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Ischemic StrokeStrokeCorpus StriatumHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingSubstantia NigraCytotoxic edemaMimicSecondary degenerationStriatal strokeStrokeSubstantia nigra

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