Todd's Paralysis: A Cerebrovascular Phenomenon?
- 1 May 1975
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 6 (3) , 301-303
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.6.3.301
Abstract
Postictal transient focal neurological deficits, i.e., Todd's paralysis, at times are correlated with early veins and/or vascular stain angiographically. Radionuclide gamma camera images show that they also may be accompanied by a relative flow hyperperfusion and a cortical rim static image uptake. Using these observations some portion of Todd's paralysis may be explained as the result of focal epileptic discharges that lead to local vasomotor and/or metabolic changes. The functional arterial venous shunting that results could contribute to cortical ischemia and the subsequent clinical deficits.Keywords
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