CLINICAL STUDY OF CARDIAC ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIOGENIC EMBOLIC CEREBRAL INFARCTION

QIAO LI¹, YUNTAO CHENG², YUNTIAN WANG³, HAO LIANG^4, SHOUXIANG NI⁵

¹Department of Ultrasound diagnosis and treatment, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Ji’nan, 250021, Shandong, China - ²Department of Cardiology, Qinghai Red Cross Hospital, Xining, 810000, Qinghai, China - ³Department of Ultrasound, Qinghai Red Cross Hospital, Xining, 810000, Qinghai, China - ⁴Department of Ultrasound diagnosis and treatment, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Ji’nan, 250021, Shandong, China - ⁵Department of Ophthalmology, Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Ji’nan, 250021, Shandong, China

Purpose: This paper aims to conduct a clinical study on the cardiac ultrasound diagnosis of cardiogenic embolic cerebral infarc-

tion.

Methods: This study performs a retrospective analysis on patients with acute cerebral infarction admitted to Department of

Neurology of our Hospital between January 2012 and October 2014. All patients are examined with Toshiba APLL050SSA- 700A Color Doppler ultrasound diagnostic apparatus for carotid artery and vertebral artery ultrasonography.

Results: The therapeutic efficiency of cardiogenic cerebral infarction with large infarction size is lower than that of cardiogenic cerebral infarction with small infarction size and lacunar infarction. There is no significant difference in the therapeutic response of car- diogenic cerebral infarction distributed in different circulation areas (P > 0.05).

Conclusions: Responsible vessel occlusion has no predictive significance for infarct size, but it is helpful to predict the therapeutic effect. The therapeutic effect on responsible vessel occlusion is usually far from satisfactory.