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Cerebral small vessel disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Clinical interventions in aging - 1 Jan 2015
Cai Zhiyou, Wang Chuanling, He Wenbo, Tu Hanjun, Tang Zhengang, Xiao Ming, Yan Liang-Jun
Abstract excerpt
Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a group of pathological processes with multifarious etiology and pathogenesis that are involved into the small arteries, arterioles, venules, and capillaries of the brain. CSVD mainly contains lacunar infarct or lacunar stroke, leukoaraiosis, Binswanger's disease, and cerebral microbleeds. CSVD is an important cerebral microvascular pathogenesis as it is the cause of 20% of...
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