Relationship of Leukoaraiosis with Cerebrovascular Disease

J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 9(3); 1991 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 1991;9(3): 302-308.

Leukoaraiosis의 뇌혈관질환과의 연관성

차재관, 이계훈,김동권,정경천,김명호

한양대학교 신경과.

Relationship of Leukoaraiosis with Cerebrovascular Disease

Jae Kwan Cha, M.D., Kye Hoon Lee, M.D., Dong Kwon Kim, M.D., Kyung Cheon Chung, M.D., Myung Ho Kim, M.D.

Dep. Of Neurology, Hanyang University

Abstract

:Non-specific periventricular white matter lucencies on computed tomography(leukoaraiosis) were found in 130(40%) of 324 patients with ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes. Patients with leukoaraiosis were significantly older than those without it and correlated with hypertension and lacunar infarction but not with cortical infarction. In patients with hemorrhage, leukoaraiosis occurred sinigificantly more often when aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation were not demonstrated. Our fiindings suggest that leukoaraiosis in cerebrovascular disease is associated with small vessel disease.