Stroke secondary to FMD

Alternative names:

fibromuscular dysplasia - stroke secondary to

Symptoms:

• weakness or total inability to move a body part
• numbness, loss of sensation
• tingling or other abnormal sensations
• decreased or lost vision, partial or temporary
• language difficulties (aphasia)
• inability to recognize or identify sensory stimuli (agnosia)
• loss of memory
• vertigo (abnormal sensation of movement)
• loss of coordination
• swallowing difficulties
• personality changes
• mood and emotion changes
• urinary incontinence (lack of control over bladder)
• lack of control over the bowels
• consciousness changes:
  • sleepy
  • stuporous, somnolent, lethargic
  • comatose, unconscious

Signs and tests:

The exact location and extent of the stroke, and changes in the arteries indicating FMD including berry aneurysms (small ballooned-out areas of the artery), may be seen on:

• head CT scan
• head MRI
• An arteriography/angiography of the head may show blood vessel changes such as narrowing of the arteries.
• An artery biopsy confirms the diagnosis of FMD (this is not performed on cranial blood vessels).