CADASIL: hereditary disease of arteries causing brain infarcts and dementia

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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) begins with migraine with aura in approximately one-third of the patients. More severe symptoms of recurrent strokes usually appear at 30-50 years of age. However, well before the first stroke, CADASIL may be diagnosed on the basis of characteristic hyperintensities in T2-weighted magnetic resonance images....

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