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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Ishcemic Cerebrovascular Disease
VASCULAR DISORDERS
• Large-vessel atherothrombotic disease
• Lacunar disease
• Arterial-to-arterial embolization
• Carotid or vertebral artery dissection
• Fibromuscular dysplasia
• Migraine
• Venous thrombosis
• Radiation
• Complications of arteriography
• Multiple, progressive intracranial arterial occlusions
INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS
• Giant cell arteritis
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Granulomatous angiitis
• Takayasu’s disease
• Arteritis associated with amphetamine, cocaine, or
phenylpropanolamine
• Syphilis, mucormycosis
• Sjögren’s syndrome
• Behçet’s syndrome
CARDIAC DISORDERS
• Rheumatic heart disease
• Mural thrombus
• Arrhythmias
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Prosthetic heart valve
• Endocarditis
• Myxoma
• Paradoxical embolus
HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
• Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
• Sickle cell disease
• Hypercoagulable states
• Polycythemia
• Thrombocytosis
• Leukocytosis
• Lupus anticoagulant
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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Cervical Dysplasia
• Adenocarcinoma in situ
• Condyloma
• Glandular epithelial abnormalities
• Hyperkeratosis
• Metaplasia
• Metastatic tumor involvement of the cervix
• Microinvasive carcinoma
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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Chagas’ Disease
• Acute disease: early African trypanosomiasis, New World cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
• Chronic disease: idiopathic cardiomyopathy, idiopathic achalasia, congenital or acquired megacolon
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