Publications by authors named "Caroline M J Loos"

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  • A study was conducted on patients with atrial fibrillation who had an ischemic stroke while using nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants to determine rates and risk factors for recurrent ischemic and bleeding events.
  • Over an average follow-up of about 15 months, 15.5% of the 1,240 patients experienced 207 events, including ischemic strokes and major bleeding incidents, with specific risk factors identified for each type of event.
  • The rates of ischemic and bleeding events did not significantly differ between patients who changed their anticoagulant treatment and those who continued with it.
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Background And Purpose: Insights into evolution of cerebral small vessel disease on neuroimaging might advance knowledge of the natural disease course. Data on evolution of sporadic symptomatic lacunar infarcts are limited. We investigated long-term changes of symptomatic lacunar infarcts and surrounding white matter on structural magnetic resonance imaging.

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Objectives: Perivascular spaces are associated with MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease, including white matter hyperintensities. Although perivascular spaces are considered to be an early MRI marker of cerebral small vessel disease, it is unknown whether they are associated with further progression of MRI markers, especially white matter hyperintensities. We determined the association between perivascular spaces and progression of white matter hyperintensities after 2-year follow-up in lacunar stroke patients.

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Background And Purpose: Studies in patients with lacunar stroke often assess the number of lacunes. However, data on how many symptomatic lacunar infarcts cavitate into a lacune are limited. We assessed the evolution of symptomatic lacunar infarcts over 2-year follow-up.

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