Kanta Tanaka, Kaori Miwa, Masatoshi Koga, Sohei Yoshimura, Kenji Kamiyama, Yoshiki Yagita, Yoshinari Nagakane, Haruhiko Hoshino, Tadashi Terasaki, Yasushi Okada, Yusuke Yakushiji, Shinichi Takahashi, Toshihiro Ueda, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Masayuki Shiozawa, Makoto Sasaki, Kohsuke Kudo, Jun Tanaka, Masashi Nishihara, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Kyohei Fujita, Yuko Honda, Hiroyuki Kawano, Toshihiro Ide, Takeshi Yoshimoto, Masafumi Ihara, Teruyuki Hirano, Kazunori Toyoda
OBJECTIVE: To determine the excess risk of antithrombotic-related bleeding due to cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) burden. METHODS: In this observational, prospective cohort study, patients with cerebrovascular or cardiovascular diseases taking oral antithrombotic agents were enrolled from 52 hospitals across Japan between 2016 and 2019. Baseline multimodal MRI acquired under prespecified conditions were assessed by a central diagnostic radiology committee to calculate total SVD score...
December 25, 2023: Annals of Neurology