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What Does MRI Report Mean?

Hi My dad is being recently undergone for MRI having complain of headche.as per report impression is ischemic foci in bifrontoparietal deep medullary and periventricular white matter on T2W and flair....
please explain me what does this mean in plain english.....pls
Fri, 16 May 2014
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FLAIR is a MRI technique used to evaluate the brain structures and abnormalities. In your dad s MRI there are small areas which might have had deficient blood supply leading to what is termed ischemia or tissue loss. The symptoms of mini stroke might not have been noticed as the area involved is small. These changes can be expected in the elderly population. Taking stroke prevention medication helps further strokes. The headache is not related to these changes.
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What Does MRI Report Mean?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. FLAIR is a MRI technique used to evaluate the brain structures and abnormalities. In your dad s MRI there are small areas which might have had deficient blood supply leading to what is termed ischemia or tissue loss. The symptoms of mini stroke might not have been noticed as the area involved is small. These changes can be expected in the elderly population. Taking stroke prevention medication helps further strokes. The headache is not related to these changes.