Distribution of Silent Cerebral Infarcts in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease.
R Sky JonesAndria L FordManus J DonahueSlim FellahL Taylor DavisSumit PruthiCharu BalamuruganRachel CohenSamantha DavisMichael R DebaunAdetola A KassimMark RodeghierLori C JordanPublished in: Neurology (2024)
When compared with children with SCD, in adults with SCD, older age is associated with expanded zones of tissue infarction that stretch beyond the traditional border zones of CBF, with more than 45% of infarcts in non-border zone regions.