Posterior cerebral infarction

The term cerebral infarct refers to a type of stroke that affects the posterior circulation of one of the two sides of the brain, causing a transitory or definitive deficit of the functioning of one or more parts of that side of the brain. brain, either by an ischemic or hemorrhagic mechanism. It is mainly associated with occlusions of the posterior cerebral artery, thus affecting vision and thinking, producing blindness affecting the contralateral half of vision, cortical blindness, visual agnosia, altered mental status and impaired memory. >

Occlusion and subsequent infarction in the territory of the posterior cerebral artery comprises 10% of all cerebral infarcts and may be bilateral in 25% of cases.

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