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- Title
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in CADASIL.
- Authors
Lifei Lian; Dujuan Li; Zheng Xue; Qiming Liang; Feng Xu; Huicong Kang; Xiaoyan Liu; Suiqiang Zhu
- Abstract
Background: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary small vascular disease and its mainly clinical manifestations are ischemic events. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) involvement in patients with CADASIL is extremely uncommon. Case report: A 46-year-old normotensive Chinese man developed a large hematoma in the left basal ganglia after he was diagnosed with CADASIL 2 months ago, the patient did not take any antithrombotics. Susceptibility weighted imaging at pre-ICH showed multiple cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) in the bilateral basal ganglia. He experienced migraine at about 10 months post-ICH. To our knowledge, this is the first report of ICH in CADASIL patients with Arg90Cys mutation in exon 3. Discussion and conclusions: ICH should be considered when evaluating new attacks in CADASIL patients. Thus, MRI screening for CMBs might be helpful in predicting the risk of ICH and guiding antithrombotic therapy. In addition, strict control of hypertension and cautious use of antithrombotics may be important in this context.
- Publication
Journal of Headache & Pain, 2013, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1129-2369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1129-2377-14-98