Extent and Distribution of White Matter Hyperintensities in Stroke Patients
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Stroke
- Vol. 35 (12), 2813-2819
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.0000147034.25760.3d
Abstract
Background and Purpose— White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) on T2-weighted MRI are common in stroke patients and healthy elderly individuals. The detailed anatomical distribution of these lesions in stroke patients has not been examined. Methods— A total of 112 stroke or transient ischemic attack patients and 87 matched control subjects from the Sydney Stroke Study underwent MRI scans that included a T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence. WMHs were delineated from each FLAIR MRI by an automated method. Region of interest and voxel-wise statistical parametric mapping approaches were applied to examine the volume, distribution, and severity of WMHs of the patient and control groups, and subgroups with large or lacunar infarcts. Results— Stroke subjects had significantly more WMHs than controls in all brain regions except the occipital lobe and in all arterial territories except the anterior callosal and anterior medial lenticulostriate. In the frontotemporal regions, average WMH ...Keywords
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