Neurology
Microbleeds, white matter changes, lacunar infarcts may have common cause
Published in Health and Medicine Week, July 26th, 2004
MBs "detected by gradient-echo T2*-weighted MRI (GRE-T2*), white matter changes and lacunar infarcts may be regarded as manifestations of microangiopathy," neurologists in Hong Kong explained. "The establishment of a quantitative relationship among them would further strengthen this hypothesis."
With this in mind, Y.H. Fan and colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong conducted a study "to investigate the frequency and the number of MBs in patients hospitalized with lacunar infarcts and their quantitative relationship with the severity of...
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