Rare Causes of Stroke

1. Inflammatory conditions; 1.1.Isolated vasculitis of the central nervous system; 1.2. Primary systemic vasculitis; 1.2.a. Giant cell vasculitis; 1.2.a.1. Temporal arteritis; 1.2.a.2. Takayasu arteritis; 1.2.b. Necrotising Vasculitis; 1.2.b.1. Polyarteritis Nodosa(PAN); 1.2.b.2. Churg strauss syndrome; 1.2.c. Granulomatosis vasculitis; 1.2.c.1. Wegener granulomatosis; 1.2.c.2. Lymphomatoid granulomatosis; 1.2.d. Vasculitis with prominent eye movement; 1.2.d.1. Susac syndrome; 1.2.d.2. Vogt koyanagi harada disease; 1.2.d.3. Easles disease; 1.2.d.4. Cogan disease; 1.3. Vasculitis secondary to systemic disease; 1.3.a. Systemic lupus erythematosis; 1.3.b. Behcet's disease; 1.3.c. Syoegren syndrome; 1.3.d. Sarcoidosis; 1.3.e. Inflammatory bowel disease; 1.3.f. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy related; 2. Infectious and postinfectious vasculitis; 2.1. Meningovascular syphilis; 2.2.Neuroborelliosis; 2.3. Tuberculosis meningitis; 2.4. Bacterial meningitis; 2.5. Neurocysticercosis; 2.6. VZV related: CMV and herpes infections; 2.7. HIV infection; 2.8. Chagas disease; 3. Hypercoagulable causes of stroke; 3.1. Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; 3.2. Hyperhomocysteinemia; 3.3. Hyperviscosity syndrome; 3.4. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and moschkowitz syndrome; 3.5. Henoch schoenlein purpura; 3.6. Cancer associated stroke; 4. Drug related stroke; 4.1. Medication related stroke; 4.2. Illicit drug related stroke; 5. Hereditary and genetic causes of stroke; 5.1. Genetic collagen disorders; 5.1.a. Ehlerdanlos syndrome; 5.1.b. Marfan syndrome; 5.1.d. Neurofibromatosis; 5.2. Genetic small vessel disease; 5.2.a. Cerebral autosomal dominant /recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy-CADASIL and CARASIL; 5.2.b.Retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy with systemic manifestations (RVCL-S); 5.3. Genetic metabolic diseases; 5.3.a. Fabry disease; 5.3.b. Mitokondrial diseases; 5.3.c. Menkes disease; 5.3.d. Tangier disease; 5.3.e. Organic acid disorders; 6. Rare causes of cardioembolism; 6.1. Paradoxal embolism: Patent foramen ovale; 6.2. Infective Endocarditis; 7. Vasospastic conditions and other vasculopathies; 7.1. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; 7.2. Eclampsia and stroke during pregnancy and postpartum; 7.3. Migraine and migraine like conditions; 8. Other non-inflammatory vasculopathies; 8.1. Moyamoya disease; 8.2. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; 8.3. Dolicoectasia and fusiform aneurysms; 8.4. Carotid artery dissection; 9.Venous occlusive conditions; 9.1. Cerebral venous thrombosis; 10.1. Bone disorders and stroke; 10.2. Eagle syndrome.