Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine how lacunar infarction developed and what its characteristics were. As this disease had little noticeable clinical symptoms and is likely to draw less attention than other types of cerebrovascular diseases like panhemispheric infarction, it‘s difficult to make an early diagnosis of it or treat it successfully. The subjects in this study were 196 people who showed no clinical symptoms and took a MRI test. When the MRI test data were analyzed, signal intensity and the part where that disease was detected were primarily taken into account. As a result, it's found that 116 people had no lacunar infarction and 80 people suffered from that disease, including 13 with very mild lacunar infarction, 41 with mild lacunar infarction and 26 with lacunar infarction. However, very mild and mild lacunar infarction could not be viewed as clinically significant cases, and only 26 people, which accounted for 13 percent of the subjects, should be considered to be diagnosed with lacuanr infarction. The most common part where that disease was found was white matter and basal ganglia, regardless of gender. Accordingly, those who are exposed to health hazards such as hypertension or diabetes should take a MRI test to prevent cerebrovascular diseases that might be caused by those illnesses.

본 연구에서는 범 반구성 뇌경색(panhemisheric infarction)등 다른 종류의 뇌혈관 질환에 대한 관심에 비해서 비교적 소홀하기 쉬우며 임상적 증상이 뚜렷하게 나타나지 않아 조기 진단과 치료가 잘 이루어지지 않는 열공성 뇌경색 (lacunar infarction)의 자기공명상 소견을 알아보고자 하였다. 전체 대상자 196명에 대한 자기공명영상 검사 소견에서 정상이 116명 이였으며 very mild lacunar infarction 13명, mild lacunar infarction 41명, lacunar infarction 26명 등 80명이 열공성 뇌경색을 가지고 있었다. 그러나 very mild lacunar infarction과 mild lacunar infaction은 임상적으로 큰 의미가 없으므로 lacunar infaction으로 진단된 26명(13%)이 실질적인 임상적 의미를 갖는 열공성 뇌경색으로 해석되고 있다.

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