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ArticleJournal of neurology2015

CADASIL in central Italy: a retrospective clinical and genetic study in 229 patients.

Silvia Bianchi, Enza Zicari, Alessandra Carluccio, Ilaria Di Donato, Francesca Pescini, Serena Nannucci, Raffaella Valenti, Michele Ragno, Domenico Inzitari, Leonardo Pantoni and 2 more

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Article in Journal of neurology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Intracerebral hemorrhage in CADASIL.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2025
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  12. Advances in Management of the Stroke Etiology One-Percenters.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023
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  15. Phenotypic variability in 446 CADASIL patients: Impact of NOTCH3 gene mutation location in addition to the effects of age, sex and vascular risk factors.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023
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  17. Genotype and Phenotype Differences in CADASIL from an Asian Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  19. Autonomic Dysfunction in the Setting of CADASIL Syndrome.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2022
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  20. First report of a homozygous mutation on exon 24 of the NOTCH3 gene in a paucisymptomatic CADASIL elderly patient.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Silvia BianchiDepartment of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences Medical School, University of Siena, Viale Bracci 2, Siena, Italy.
Enza Zicari
Alessandra Carluccio
Ilaria Di Donato
Francesca Pescini
Serena Nannucci
Raffaella Valenti
Michele Ragno
Domenico Inzitari
Leonardo Pantoni
Antonio Federico
Maria Teresa Dotti
University of Siena · ITUniversity of Florence · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of the study is to detail clinical and NOTCH3 gene mutational spectrum in a large group of Italian CADASIL patients. Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a familial cerebral small vessels disease caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene on 19p13 usually presenting in young or middle adulthood. Characteristic features include migraine, recurrent lacunar stroke, subcortical dementia, mood disturbances and leukoencephalopathy. The disorder is often overlooked and misdiagnosed. CADASIL prevalence and disease burden is still undetermined. We retrospectively reviewed demographic, clinical, and mutational characteristic of all CADASIL patients diagnosed from January 2002 to December 2012 in three referral centers for neurogenetic and cerebrovascular diseases in central Italy. 229 NOTCH3 positive subjects were identified. Mean age at diagnosis was 57.8 ± 14.7 years, and 48.6 ± 17.1 years at first symptom onset. Most frequent clinical symptoms were ischemic events (59 %) and psychiatric disturbances (48 %). The highest percentage of mutations were found on exons 4 and 19 (20.6 and 17.6 % respectively), the remaining being dispersed over the entire EGF-like region of the NOTCH3 gene. 209 patients resided in a circumscribed geographic area which included three regions of the central Italy, yielding a minimum prevalence of 4.1 per 100.000 adult inhabitants. This is the most extensive study on CADASIL in Italy. Clinical phenotype showed several peculiarities in frequency and presentation of the main disease manifestations. Our study enlarges the number of pathogenic NOTCH3 mutations and due to the heterogeneous mutational spectrum observed suggests that full sequencing of exons 2-24 is mandatory for CADASIL screening in the Italian population.

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AdultAgedCADASILFemaleGenotypeHumansItalyMaleMiddle AgedMutationPhenotypeReceptor, Notch3Receptors, NotchRetrospective StudiesNOTCH3 protein, humanReceptor, Notch3Receptors, Notch

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