Cerebral microbleeds are related to loss of white matter structural integrity

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 1930-1937

  Akoudad, Saloua ^a,b   De Groot, Marius ^a,b,c   Koudstaal, Peter J ^b   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^b,c,d,e   Hofman, Albert ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a,b   Vernooij, Meike W ^a,b  

^a Biostatistics and HTA   (Netherlands)

^b Departments of Neurology   (Netherlands)

^c Departments of Medical Informatics   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CAA 5 cerebral amyloid angiopathy; CMB 5 cerebral microbleed; CSVD 5 cerebral small vessel disease; DTI 5 diffusion tensor imaging; FA 5 fractional anisotropy; FLAIR 5 fluid attenuated inversion recovery; MD 5 mean diffusivity; WML 5 white matter lesion.

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84891904112     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000436609.20587.65     Document Type: Article

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