23 % of patients presenting with neurological manifestations at their first acute TTP episode, showed brain IS. As expected, MRI showed higher sensitivity in detecting ischemic lesions underscoring its usefulness over CT in this setting. An unexpected prevalence of non-lacunar and multifocal stroke patterns warrants further investigation. Cardiovascular risk factors and iTTP-related clinical and laboratory parameters were similarly distributed in patients with and without IS.
Keyphrases
- cardiovascular risk factors
- cerebral ischemia
- contrast enhanced
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiovascular disease
- metabolic syndrome
- magnetic resonance imaging
- liver failure
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- computed tomography
- blood brain barrier
- risk factors
- drug induced
- respiratory failure
- dual energy
- brain injury
- image quality
- white matter
- resting state
- diffusion weighted imaging
- aortic dissection
- magnetic resonance
- functional connectivity
- neural network