Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

The brain CT scan was read as “normal ... “pool” (the word “lagoon” comes from the same root), so a lacunar infarct is a small stroke that looks like a pit or pool.

Although short-term dual antiplatelet therapy may eventually prove to benefit specific populations with very high stroke risk, the SPS3 trial definitively establishes that lacunar stroke alone is ...