Is Breakdown of the Blood-Brain Barrier Responsible for Lacunar Stroke, Leukoaraiosis, and Dementia?

By Joanna M. Wardlaw, P. Sandercock, M. Dennis, John M. Starr. Stroke, 2003

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Neurology

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Citations in the corpus

• Heterogeneity of small vessel disease: a systematic review of MRI and histopathology correlations (2010, background): “Possible alternatives include thrombo-embolism, general, ongoing hypoxia or tissue damage by extravasated toxic serum proteins due to blood-brain barrier leakage.(71;76) Future postmortem MRI”
• The Blood-Brain Barrier/Neurovascular Unit in Health and Disease (2005, background): “In other conditions in which cerebrovascular abnormalities have been noted, such as Alzheimer’s disease, the relationship between BBB breakdown and pathology is not clear (Wardlaw et al., 2003).”