ReviewNeurology2019
CNS small vessel disease: A clinical review.
Review in Neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05052788 (Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Patients With Cerebral Small Vessel Disease.), which is not on this map. Cited by 387 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Patients With Cerebral Small Vessel Disease.
Who cites it
387 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 615 citations in OpenAlex.
- Multimodal MRI markers of white matter hyperintensities and their impact on cognition in cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review.Brain imaging and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Global ethnic disparities in cerebral small vessel disease imaging markers and vascular risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Pooled it
- DTI-ALPS index and cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Machine learning applications in vascular neuroimaging for the diagnosis and prognosis of cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Pooled it
- Circulating immune cells in cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review.Biogerontology · 2025Pooled it
- Arterial stiffness measured by pulse wave velocity correlated with cognitive decline in hypertensive individuals: a systematic review.BMC neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Sporadic cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive decline in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2024Pooled it
- Differential impact of cumulative cerebral small-vessel disease burden on ischemic versus hemorrhagic stroke recurrence in hemorrhage-prone patients.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Trial
- Folic acid supplementation improves cognitive function in participants with cerebral small vascular disease-related cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026Trial
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- Quantifying dilated perivascular spaces in children with sickle cell disease.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2024Trial
- Self-supervised small vessel segmentation with shape-aware geometric models and attention.Medical image analysis · 2026Article
- Multiomics Profiling Supports Cathepsin B as a Protective Factor in White Matter Hyperintensities and Cognition.Stroke · 2026Article
- Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography-Angiography and Longitudinal Changes in Cognition and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease.Neurology · 2026Article
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- The association between total SVD score and cardio-ankle vascular index.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Association of middle cerebral artery atherosclerotic plaque with vessel tortuosity and white matter hyperintensity.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Cerebral small vessel disease: pearls and pitfalls from unexplored risk factors to treatment.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2026Review
- A geometric-to-neural cascade for cerebral microbleed detection in susceptibility-weighted MRI.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Antiplatelet Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease-Naïve People with Cerebral Small-Vessel Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
327 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
CNS small vessel disease (CSVD) causes 25% of strokes and contributes to 45% of dementia cases. Prevalence increases with age, affecting about 5% of people aged 50 years to almost 100% of people older than 90 years. Known causes and risk factors include age, hypertension, branch atheromatous disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, radiation exposure, immune-mediated vasculitides, certain infections, and several genetic diseases. CSVD can be asymptomatic; however, depending on location, lesions can cause mild cognitive dysfunction, dementia, mood disorders, motor and gait dysfunction, and urinary incontinence. CSVD is diagnosed on the basis of brain imaging biomarkers, including recent small subcortical infarcts, white matter hyperintensities, lacunes, cerebral microbleeds, enlarged perivascular spaces, and cerebral atrophy. Advanced imaging modalities can detect signs of disease even earlier than current standard imaging techniques. Diffusion tensor imaging can identify altered white matter connectivity, and blood oxygenation level-dependent imaging can identify decreased vascular reactivity. Pathogenesis is thought to begin with an etiologically specific insult, with or without genetic predisposition, which results in dysfunction of the neurovascular unit. Uncertainties regarding pathogenesis have delayed development of effective treatment. The most widely accepted approach to treatment is to intensively control well-established vascular risk factors, of which hypertension is the most important. With better understanding of pathogenesis, specific therapies may emerge. Early identification of pathologic characteristics with advanced imaging provides an opportunity to forestall progression before emergence of symptoms.
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