TY - JOUR T1 - Artery of Percheron: an unusual stroke presentation JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222185 VL - 2018 SP - bcr-2017-222185 AU - Toby Pitts-Tucker AU - Jeremy Small Y1 - 2018/03/28 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2017-222185.abstract N2 - An 86-year-old woman was admitted with multiple episodes of transient loss of consciousness. She was initially treated for seizures, and stroke was not considered likely. MRI on the same day of admission showed acute bilateral medial thalamic infarcts in keeping with the Artery of Percheron (AOP) territory infarcts. Investigation for polycythaemia and thrombocytosis showed JAK2 positive myeloproliferative neoplasm.A diagnosis of AOP infarction is often missed or delayed because it is rare and presents with variable neurological symptoms. Initial imaging in the form of CT is often negative, and some report that initial MRI findings may also be normal.An awareness of a wide range of differential diagnoses alongside a multi-modality imaging approach is required to reach a diagnosis.Although there are several other case reports of AOP infarction in the literature, this is the first to present with transient symptoms initially mistaken for seizure activity. ER -