Estimating Total Cerebral Microinfarct Burden From Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Author(s):
Auriel, E.; Westover, M.B.; Bianchi, M.T.; Reijmer, Y.; Martinez-Ramirez, S.; Ni, J.; Etten, E. van; Frosch, M.P.; Fotiadis, P.; Schwab, K.; Vashkevich, A.; Boulouis, G.; Younger, A.P.; Johnson, K.A.; Sperling, R.A.; Hedden, T.; Gurol, M.E.; Viswanathan, A.; Greenberg, S.M.
Published
2015
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Conclusions-Detecting even a single DWI lesion suggests an annual incidence of hundreds of new CMI. The cumulative effects of these lesions may directly contribute to small-vessel-related vascular cognitive impairment.

braincerebral hemorrhagecerebral infarctiondiffusion magnetic resonance imagingmild cognitive impairment
Date issued
2015-08-01
Language
English
Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Is part of
Stroke (2015), Vol. 46, no. 8, p. 2129-2135
hdl
1887/99343
doi
10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009208