Subclinical Vascular Brain Lesions in Young Adults With Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Valeria De GiuliMario GrassiMichele BesanaMaria Luisa ZeddeAndrea ZiniCorrado LodigianiSimona MarcheselliAnna CavalliniGiuseppe MicieliMaurizia RasuraMaria Luisa DeLodoviciGiampaolo TomelleriNicoletta CheccarelliAlberto ChitiElisa GiorliMassimo Del SetteLucia TancrediAntonella TorielloMassimiliano BragaMorotti AndreaDebora PezziniMartina LocatelliValentina MazzoleniSonia BonacinaMassimo GambaMauro MagoniRosalba PatellaAlessandra SpalloniAnna Maria SimoneRosario PascarellaSandro BerettaAlessandro PadovaniRoberto GasparottiAlessandro Pezzininull nullPublished in: Stroke (2021)
Subclinical vascular brain lesions affect ≈2 in 10 young adults with ischemic stroke. Although lacunes and total SVD score are associated with thrombotic recurrence, they do not improve accuracy of outcome prediction over validated clinical predictors.