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Very high prevalence of right-to-left shunt on transcranial Doppler in an Italian family with cerebral autosomal dominant angiopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy.
European neurology - 1 Jan 2001
Angeli S, Carrera P, Del Sette M, Assini A, Grandis M, Biancolini D, Ferrari M, Gandolfo C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Cerebral autosomal dominant angiopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease whose clinical expression is a stepwise subcortical vascular dementia. Initial presentation of the disease involves transient or stabilized focal neurological deficits, migraine and mood changes. Recently, a high prevalence of right-to-left shunt...
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