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Cerebral Microbleeds, Small-Vessel Disease of the Brain, Hypertension, and Cognition

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Cerebral microbleeds (CMB) have been increasingly recognized on neuroimaging since the widespread application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques tailored to detect foci of magnetic susceptibility. CMB are most often clinically asymptomatic and are a result of rupture of small blood vessels in basal ganglia or subcortical white matter (1–4)

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    Anand Viswanathan MD, PhD

  2. Department of Neurology CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Hugues Chabriat MD, PhD

  3. Department of Neurology, Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Steven M. Greenberg MD, PhD

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Viswanathan, A., Chabriat, H., Greenberg, S.M. (2011). Cerebral Microbleeds, Small-Vessel Disease of the Brain, Hypertension, and Cognition. In: Aiyagari, V., Gorelick, P. (eds) Hypertension and Stroke. Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-010-6_14

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