Macro- and microvascular contributions to cerebral structural alterations in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
Schmitzer L, Kaczmarz S, Göttler J, Hoffmann G, Kallmayer M, Eckstein H, Hedderich D, Kufer J, Zimmer C, Preibisch C, Hyder F, Sollmann N. Macro- and microvascular contributions to cerebral structural alterations in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Cerebrovascular And Brain Metabolism Reviews 2024, 44: 1629-1642. PMID: 38506325, PMCID: PMC11418673, DOI: 10.1177/0271678x241238935.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInternal carotid artery stenosisInternal carotid artery stenosis patientsCerebral blood flowCarotid artery stenosisPeak width of skeletonized mean diffusivitySmall vessel diseaseContralateral alterationsArtery stenosisAsymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosisWhite matterAsymptomatic carotid artery stenosisCapillary transit time heterogeneityCerebral structural alterationsCortical thicknessMagnetic resonance imagingHemodynamic alterationsRisk factorsPatientsDTI metricsResonance imagingDorsal cingulate cortexBlood flowIschemic strokeMean diffusivityStenosis