Cerebral microbleeds are not associated with long-term cognitive outcome in patients with transient ischemic attack or minor stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-202

  Brundel, Manon ^a   Kwa, Vincent I H ^b   Bouvy, Willem H ^a   Algra, Ale ^a   Kappelle, L Jaap ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center Utrecht Department of Neurology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Cognition in cerebrovascular disease; Cognitive and psychological aspects of stroke; Cognitive screening; Ischemic stroke; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microbleeds; Stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MINOR ISCHEMIC STROKE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW FOR COGNITIVE STATUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER; AGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84895586050     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000358119     Document Type: Article

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