Cerebral small vessel disease and stroke: linked by stroke aetiology, but not stroke lesion location or size

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a common, mostly progressive pathology of the small arterioles, venules, and capillaries of the brain. With the progress in brain imaging over the last decades, various types of SVD-related brain lesions were discovered.1,2 The burden of SVD-related lesions was found to be linked to a plethora of neurological and cognitive pathologies,3,4 including an association with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research