PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C van der Windt
AU  - J van Gijn
TI  - Cerebral infarction does not occur typically at night.
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp.51.1.109
DP  - 1988 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 109--111
VI  - 51
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/51/1/109.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/51/1/109.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry1988 Jan 01; 51
AB  - In a hospital-based series of 66 consecutive patients with non-progressive cerebral infarction, the time of onset and the type of infarction on computed tomography were studied retrospectively. Forty-six (78%) patients suffered cerebral infarction between 6 am and 6 pm. Only five patients (8%) had their infarct between midnight and 6 am. Only three patients had a watershed-infarct, and these occurred during the daytime. Our results do not support the belief that atherothrombotic brain infarction is largely determined by haemodynamic factors.