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ArticleBrain sciences2020

Evaluation of Cerebral Microvascular Regulatory Mechanisms with Transcranial Doppler in Fabry Disease.

Pedro Castro, Mariana Gutierres, Gilberto Pereira, Susana Ferreira, João Paulo Oliveira, Elsa Azevedo

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Article in Brain sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The role of impaired autoregulation in cerebral small vessel disease and vascular cognitive impairment.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2026
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  3. Cerebral blood flow regulation and cognitive performance in hypertension.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2024
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  5. Neurovascular coupling on trial: How the number of trials completed impacts the accuracy and precision of temporally derived neurovascular coupling estimates.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pedro CastroDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
Mariana GutierresDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0462-7735
Gilberto PereiraDepartment of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
Susana FerreiraDepartment of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto and Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-1718-8794
João Paulo OliveiraDepartment of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto and Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5016-1967
Elsa AzevedoDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-3731-4508
Universidade do Porto · PTHospital de São João · PT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFabry disease (FD) causes cerebrovascular disease (CVD) even if asymptomatic, and this is why it is important to identify non-invasive methods to monitor the disease. We evaluated the usefulness of the cerebral autoregulation, vasoreactivity, and neurovascular coupling assessed by transcranial Doppler (TCD) in FD.

methodsTen adult patients with classic phenotype FD, without clinical expression of CVD, and ten healthy controls, were included. We monitored cerebral blood flow velocity with TCD in the middle and posterior cerebral arteries, blood pressure, heart rate, and non-invasive expired carbon dioxide (CO

resultsFD male patients showed blunted vasoreactivity in posterior circulation (0.70 ± 0.36%/mmHg vs. 1.09 ± 0.18%/mmHg CO

conclusionMale patients with FD classic phenotype and hitherto clinical expression of CVD already show impairment of cerebral vasoreactivity and neurovascular coupling. It supports the notion of an early dysfunction of cerebral microvascular in a presymptomatic stage of CVD in FD and that TCD could be useful in its assessment.

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cerebral blood flowFabry diseaseneurovascular couplingsmall vessel diseasetranscranial Doppler

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PMID32784589
PMCPMC7464258
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