The clinical features and severity of cerebral infarction depend on the type pf cerebral arteries, the locations, and the severity of damages. Objectives: This study aimed to describe the relationship between the clinical features at admission and the type of arterial lesions (assessed by brain magnetic resonance), and to depict clinical manifestations of patients with cerebral infarction in accordance to damaged arteries. Subjects and Methods: The study was conducted on 190 cerebral infarction patients who were admitted to Phu Tho Provincial Hospital during 10/2007 to 10/2009. Results: It was found that the common symptoms of cerebral infarction in this sample were dizziness (81.6 percent, n=155) and hemiplegia (71.1 percent, n=135). Patients with middle cerebral artery lesions suffered from high prevalence of hemiplegia (85.7 percent, n=90), and showed less improvement than ones with lesions in other cerebral arteries. Dizziness is associated with damages in posterior cerebral artery (88.9 percent n=32) and is more persistent than in other artery injuries. Headaches are not a common symptom of prefrontal artery infarction (20.4 percent, n = 10). Conclusions: There is an association between clinical manifestations at admission and artery lesions in patients with cerebral infarction. Target-artery lesion would be a valuable predictive factor of clinical symptoms.
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