Cerebral microbleeds in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage are associated with previous cerebrovascular diseases and white matter hyperintensity, but not with regular use of antiplatelet agents

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 333-338

  Nishikawa, Tomofumi ^a   Ueba, Tetsuya ^a   Kajiwara, Motohiro ^a   Miyamatsu, Naomi ^b   Yamashita, Kohsuke ^a  

^a Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiplatelet agent; Cerebral microbleed; Cerebrovascular disease

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 69549102982     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.333     Document Type: Article

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