With the nationwide spread of MRI coupled with the regular brain checkup system in
Japan, clinicians often incidentally come across the asymptomatic cerebrovascular
diseases during routine medical examinations, and the importance of these disorders
has been gradually recognized. For example, asymptomatic cerebral infarctions, also
known as “silent brain infarctions,” have recently been identified as an independent
risk factor for stroke.1 To reduce the number of the stroke patients and the patients requiring long-term
care, asymptomatic cerebral infarction has become one of the diseases to which we
should pay more attention, and assessing the appropriate clinical response to it is
important. In addition, considering the mortality rate and morbidity are high once
such a cerebral aneurysm ruptures, and that clinicians come across asymptomatic cerebrovascular
diseases surprisingly frequently,2-5 a set of guidelines presenting the appropriate clinical response and the steps we
should take is eagerly awaited.
To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular DiseasesAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
Article info
Identification
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2011.05.012
Copyright
© 2011 Published by Elsevier Inc.
