...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...

... family with additional evidence of autoimmunity in at least three affected members. All these 3 individuals were women as often observed in autoimmune disorders [ 8 ]. Cerebral small vessel disease CADASIL Stroke Vasculitis Autoimmunity Patient III-2: The index patient is a 44 year-old...

...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 Demographic data and clinical features are shown in table  1 . The mode of onset was vascular in 6 patients (cerebral infarction in 4 and transient ischemic attacks in 2). In the other 3 patients...

... 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...