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What Does My Lab Test Report Indicate?

I got a report that says there are multiple focal areas of increased T2/FLAIR signal periventricular and subcortical white matter. In addition, there are several small lacunar infarcts in the bilateral basil ganglia. I see the neuro on Tuesday, but what is your take?
Thu, 17 Mar 2016
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Hello,

Thank you for the query and welcome to Healthcaremagic!

To help you out further i will need some more information like what is the age of the patient?any complaints of urination,weakness or different sensation in any part of the body?does the patient have any autoimmune disease?

Regarding the report that you have mentioned there are two parts of it:
1. Flair signal in periventricular and sub cortical area- these are area of brain. Sub cortical is Basal ganglia part of brain. This type flair signal can occur in old age, autoimmune disease,stroke etc.

2. Many lacunar infarcts in both sides basal ganglia- Infarct is area of brain cut off its blood supply. As basal ganglia infarcts are not usually the patient's history needs to be looked into for cause. Basal ganglia stroke will reflect as behavioral abnormalities, speech problem,memory deficit, some weakness or movement disturbance in area of body.

Get the patient examined by a local neurologist as you have planned to see for the time of infarct and find cause of infarction.

Hope this cleared your query, follow back for any future questions.
Takecare!
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What Does My Lab Test Report Indicate?

Hello, Thank you for the query and welcome to Healthcaremagic! To help you out further i will need some more information like what is the age of the patient?any complaints of urination,weakness or different sensation in any part of the body?does the patient have any autoimmune disease? Regarding the report that you have mentioned there are two parts of it: 1. Flair signal in periventricular and sub cortical area- these are area of brain. Sub cortical is Basal ganglia part of brain. This type flair signal can occur in old age, autoimmune disease,stroke etc. 2. Many lacunar infarcts in both sides basal ganglia- Infarct is area of brain cut off its blood supply. As basal ganglia infarcts are not usually the patient s history needs to be looked into for cause. Basal ganglia stroke will reflect as behavioral abnormalities, speech problem,memory deficit, some weakness or movement disturbance in area of body. Get the patient examined by a local neurologist as you have planned to see for the time of infarct and find cause of infarction. Hope this cleared your query, follow back for any future questions. Takecare!