Severity of Leukoaraiosis and Susceptibility to Infarct Growth in Acute Stroke
Author(s) -
Hakan Ay,
Ethem Murat Arsava,
Jonathan Rosand,
Karen L. Furie,
Aneesh B. Singhal,
Pamela W. Schaefer,
Ona Wu,
R. Gilberto González,
Walter J. Koroshetz,
A. Gregory Sorensen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.501932
Subject(s) - medicine , leukoaraiosis , quartile , cardiology , infarction , stroke (engine) , ischemia , perfusion , white matter , perfusion scanning , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering , confidence interval
Leukoaraiosis (LA) is associated with structural and functional vascular changes that may compromise tissue perfusion at the microvascular level. We hypothesized that the volume of LA correlated with the proportion of initially ischemic but eventually infarcted tissue in acute human stroke.
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