All are symptoms of lacunar infarct except: (A) Pure sensory type seen, (B) Unilateral ataxia, (C) Dysahria-hand clumsiness, (D) Transient loss of consciousness
Answer is D. *Clinical manifestations include pure motor hemiparesis, pure sensory stroke, ataxic hemiparesis and dysahria and a clumsy hand. Lacunar infarcts are small infarcts (2-20 mm in diameter) in the deep cerebral white matter, basal ganglia, or pons, presumed to result from the occlusion of a single small perforating aery supplying the subcoical areas of the brain. Ref Harrison20th edition pg 2345