Review of Cerebral Microangiopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease: Relation between White Matter Hyperintensities and Microbleeds

@article{Hommet2011ReviewOC,
  title={Review of Cerebral Microangiopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease: Relation between White Matter Hyperintensities and Microbleeds},
  author={C. Hommet and Karl Mondon and Thierry Constans and {\'E}milie Beaufils and Thomas Desmidt and Vincent Camus and Jean Philippe Cottier},
  journal={Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders},
  year={2011},
  volume={32},
  pages={367 - 378}
}
Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is basically considered to be a neurodegenerative disorder, cerebrovascular disease is also involved. The role of vascular risk factors and vascular disease in the progression of AD remains incompletely understood. With the development of brain MRI, it is now possible to detect small-vessel disease, whose prevalence and severity increase with age. The first types of small-vessel disease to be described were white matter hyperintensities (WMHs). More recently… 
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