...Nancy J. Edwards; Marie F. Grill; H. Alex Choi; Nerissa U. Ko Background: Infection with HIV predisposes patients to a myriad of neurologic disorders, including cerebrovascular disease. The pathophysiology is likely multifactorial, with proposed mechanisms including infectious vasculitis, HIV...

... Vasculitis Autoimmunity Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) due to mutations in the NOTCH3 gene is considered to be the most common cause of inherited stroke and inherited vascular dementia [ 1 ]. Various clinical manifestations...

...Jiunn-Horng Kang; Jau-Jiuan Sheu; Herng-Ching Lin Background: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a relatively common rheumatic disease, particularly in the elderly. Vasculitis is associated with PMR and theoretically makes such patients susceptible to vascular events such as stroke. This study aims...

...Raffi Topakian; Karl Stieglbauer; Karin Nussbaumer; Franz T. Aichner We report on 2 patients with cerebral vasculitis and stroke due to Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB). Both patients had a prodromal stage involving headaches, and showed meningeal enhancement in addition to ischemic infarctions on brain...

... and follow up cerebral vasculitis due to chronic cysticercotic arachnoiditis. 16 1 1998 1998 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic...

... vasculitis, vasculopathy, coagulopathies, emboli, compression from granulomas and transient cellular dysfunction. Underlying immune-mediated processes may be immune-complex deposition, T-cell-mediated effects on endothelial cells, monocyte-mediated effects, direct effects of antibodies on cell membranes...