Stroke

• Is stroke an imaging diagnosis?
• What determines the symptoms of a stroke?
• What determines the treatment of a stroke?
• Let’s remind ourselves of the anatomy of the brain…
• Look at the brain on a CT and diffusion MRI…
• Now, look at two different patients with big right blobs in their brain…
• Where do ischaemic strokes usually happen?
• How would you treat someone with a thrombotic/embolic stroke?

Intracranial Haemorrhage

• What types of haemorrhage can we get in the cranium?
• Look at a picture of an extradural haemorrhage…
• Now, let’s look at a subdural haemorrhage…
• Look at a subarachnoid haemorrhage on imaging…
• Now look at a subarachnoid haemorrhage in an aneurysm…
• What’s the best imaging modality to diagnose subarachnoid haemorrhage?
• Look at this image showing us an aneurysm…
• How do we treat a subarachnoid haemorrhage?

Demyelinating Disease

• Outline the epidemiology of multiple sclerosis…