Meaning of angiotropic | Babel Free

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Having an affinity for, or moving towards blood vessels.

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“Because of its predilection for spread⟳ along vessel walls, mucor is sometimes called “angiotropic” Intracranial extension may occur⟳ due to this angiotropic spread⟳ or due to distal mycotic emboli or contiguous meningeal inflammation.[ 4 ] Thorough search⟳ of the literature revealed very few cases of diffusion-weighted MRI demonstration of optic ischemic neuropathy.[ 5 ] Out of these, MRI demonstrated ischemic optic nerve involvement due rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in only three case reports.[ 6 7 8 ] MRI findings confirming the infarction of the optic nerve are high signal intensity along the optic nerves on diffusion-weighted imaging, with corresponding low signal on apparent diffusion coefficient map with normal fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and gadolinium-enhanced images.[ 6 7 ] These imaging findings and ensuing blindness may result⟳ from the invasion of the blood vessel walls by the organisms leading to occlusion or thrombosis of the central retinal artery or ophthalmic artery or direct⟳ optic nerve infiltration by mucormycosis.[ 6 9 ] Diffusion-weighted imaging is vital for early diagnosis of ischemic optic neuropathy and it shows the abnormality when other MR sequences are normal.[ 6 8 ] Various head and neck malignancies, such as adenoid cystic carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and lymphoma, are well known to spread⟳ in perineural fashion, the trigeminal nerve and its branches being the common site.[ 10 ] Perineural extension has been uncommonly reported in invasive mucormycosis.”

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