Total anterior circulation infarct (TACI) is a type of cerebral infarction affecting the entire anterior circulation supplying one side of the brain.
Total anterior circulation stroke syndrome (TACS) refers to the symptoms of a patient who clinically appears to have suffered from a total anterior circulation infarct, but who has not yet had any diagnostic imaging (e.g. CT Scan) to confirm the diagnosis.
It is diagnosed when it causes all 3 of the following symptoms:
- Higher dysfunction
- Dysphasia
- Visuospatial disturbances
- Decreased level of consciousness
- Homonymous hemianopia
- Motor and Sensory Defects (≥2/3 of face, arm, leg)
For more information, see stroke.
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Cerebrovascular diseases including stroke |
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| Ischaemic stroke | | Brain |
- Anterior cerebral artery syndrome
- Middle cerebral artery syndrome
- Posterior cerebral artery syndrome
- Amaurosis fugax
- Moyamoya disease
- Dejerine–Roussy syndrome
- Watershed stroke
- Lacunar stroke
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| Brain stem |
- Brainstem stroke syndrome
- Medulla
- Medial medullary syndrome
- Lateral medullary syndrome
- Pons
- Medial pontine syndrome / Foville's
- Lateral pontine syndrome / Millard-Gubler
- Midbrain
- Weber's syndrome
- Benedikt syndrome
- Claude's syndrome
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| Cerebellum |
- Cerebellar stroke syndrome
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| Extracranial arteries |
- Carotid artery stenosis
- precerebral
- Anterior spinal artery syndrome
- Vertebrobasilar insufficiency
- Subclavian steal syndrome
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| Classification |
- Brain ischemia
- Cerebral infarction
- Classification
- Transient ischemic attack
- Total anterior circulation infarct
- Partial anterior circulation infarct
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| Other |
- CADASIL
- Binswanger's disease
- Transient global amnesia
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| Haemorrhagic stroke | | Extra-axial |
- Epidural
- Subdural
- Subarachnoid
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| Cerebral/Intra-axial | |
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| Brainstem | |
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| General | |
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| Aneurysm |
- Intracranial aneurysm
- Charcot–Bouchard aneurysm
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| Other |
- Cerebral vasculitis
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
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