Small vessel disease burden and risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events in patients with lacunar stroke and intracerebral haemorrhage attributable to deep perforator arteriolopathy.
Martina Béatrice GoeldlinJan VynckierMadlaine MuellerBoudewijn DropBasel MaamariNoah VonlanthenBernhard M SiepenArsany HakimJohannes KaesmacherChristopher Marvin JesseMandy D MuellerThomas Raphael MeinelMorin BeyelerLeander CléninJan GrallaWerner Josef Z'GraggenDavid BerviniMarcel ArnoldUrs FischerDavid Julian SeiffgePublished in: European stroke journal (2023)
DPA manifesting as ICH is associated with more severe MRI SVD burden and worse outcome compared to LS. The short-term risks of subsequent ischaemic stroke and recurrent ICH are similar in ICH and LS patients. This implies potential consequences for future secondary prevention strategies.