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2015

Western University

CT perfusion

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Role Of Cerebrovascular Abnormality In Neurodegenerative Disease And Subcortical Ischemic Disease: Ct Perfusion And Pet Imaging, Jun Yang Sep 2015

Role Of Cerebrovascular Abnormality In Neurodegenerative Disease And Subcortical Ischemic Disease: Ct Perfusion And Pet Imaging, Jun Yang

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Clinical studies indicate that about 30% ~ 50% of patients have cognitive impairment after the first or recurrent stroke. Ischemic injury, particularly subcortical lesions, caused by stroke has been demonstrated to further exacerbate cognitive impairment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia. However, the mechanisms whereby cerebrovascular abnormalities contribute to neurodegeneration at early stage of disease and eventually to cognitive decline remain unclear. CT perfusion and positron emission tomography (PET) were used to investigate early mechanisms in a rat comorbid model of cerebral ischemia (CI) and β-amyloid (Aβ, a pathological hallmark of AD) toxicity, and in patients with small subcortical …