OBJECTIVE
Besides carotid or cardiac embolism, stroke can occur via microangiopathy (small arterial disease [SAD]) and macroangiopathy (intracranial atherosclerotic stroke [ICAS]) of the intracranial vasculature. There have been efforts to identify risk factors specific to microangiopathy and
BACKGROUND
Hemorrhagic transformation (HT) after cerebral ischemia seems to be related to the endothelial disruption secondary to the ischemic process. Albuminuria has recently been found to be a marker of chronic endothelial damage.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the relationship between albuminuria and
OBJECTIVE
Disruption of the blood-brain barrier has been proposed to be important in vascular cognitive impairment. Increased cerebrospinal fluid albumin and contrast-enhanced MRI provide supporting evidence, but quantification of the blood-brain barrier permeability in patients with vascular
OBJECTIVE
Subcortical ischemic vascular disease (SIVD) is a major form of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) due to small vessel disease. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are neutral proteases that disrupt the blood-brain barrier and degrade myelin basic protein under conditions of
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