Incident Infarcts in Patients With Stroke and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Frequency and Relation to Clinical Outcomes.
Una ClancyCarmen Arteaga ReyesDaniela Jaime GarciaWill HewinsRachel LochertyMaria Del Carmen Valdés-HernándezStewart J WisemanMichael S StringerMichael ThrippletonFrancesca M ChappellAngela C C JochemsXiaodi LiuYajun ChengJunfang ZhangSalvatore RudilossoAgniete KampaiteOlivia K L HamiltonRosalind BrownMark E BastinSusana Muñoz ManiegaIona HamiltonDominic JobFergus N DoubalJoanna Marguerite WardlawPublished in: Neurology (2024)
In the year after stroke in a population enriched for lacunar stroke, incident infarcts occurred in one-quarter and were associated with worse baseline SVD. Most incident infarcts detected on imaging did not correspond to clinical stroke/transient ischemic attack. Worse 1-year cognition and function were not associated with incident infarcts.