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Table 1 Clinical data from post-mortem brain tissue

From: Characterization of the TNF and IL-1 systems in human brain and blood after ischemic stroke

Case

Sex/Age at death

Infarcted brain area

Infarct age

Cause of death

1

M/76

Left temporal lobe

<  7 days

Multiorgan failure due to sepsis

2

F/73

Right temporal lobe

<  7 days

Rupture of thoracic aortic aneurysm

3

F/78

Right hemisphere

2 days

Perforated gastric ulcer with peritonitis and infarct

4

M/67

Left temporal lobe

<  7 days

Cardiac arrest

5

M/61

Right parietal lobe

<  1 day

>  7 days

Multiorgan failure due to sepsis, cardiac infarct and endocarditis

6

F/83

Right hippocampus

Cerebellum

1 day

>  7 days

Pulmonary embolism

7

F/80

Right frontal lobe

Medulla

Pons

Striatum

1 day

<  5 days

1 day

<  7 days

Bronchopneumonia

8

M/68

Left parietal lobe

<  1 day

Cerebral infarct, pneumonia

9

M/68

Caudate nucleus

Insula

>  7 days

>  7 days

Bronchopneumonia

10

M/59

Right parietal lobe

>  7 days

Pneumonia

11

M/57

Left internal capsule

>  7 days

Pneumonia

12

F/67

Right occipital lobe

Right occipital lobe

1 day

>  2 days

Pulmonary infarcts

Respiratory distress syndrome

13

M/38

Right parietal lobe

<  5 days

Cerebral herniation, subdural empyema, ARDS

14

M/48

Right temporal lobe

>  7 days

Pneumonia, hypoglycemia

  1. ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, F female, M male