Patients developing strokes during follow up
| WML score on MRI | Stroke during follow up | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient | Age (years)/sex | Vascular risk factors at entry | Initial diagnosis | Location of infarct | Baseline | Follow up (number) | After stroke | Type and location of infarct (symptoms and signs) | Interval after baseline MRI, month | Risk factor status | Antiplatelet agents |
| DM, diabetes mellitus; F, female; HT, hypertension; IHD, ischaemic heart disease; L, left; M, male; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; R, right; WML; white matter high intensity lesions. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 63/M | HT, current smoking | Lacunar stroke (R hemiparesis) | Multiple lacunes in the L internal capsule, R corona radiata and bilateral putamen | 15 | 15 (one) | 15 | Lacunar infarct, L corona radiata (dysarthria, R hemiparesis, gait disturbance) | 42 | Moderate HT, current smoking | Yes |
| 2 | 68/M | DM, IHD, current smoking | Lacunar stroke (R hemiparesis) | Multiple lacunes in the L internal capsule, R corona radiata and bilateral putamen | 8 | 11 (one) | 14 | Lacunar infarct, R corona radiata and bilateral thlamus (dysarthria, gait disturbance) | 33 | Moderate HT, uncontrolled DM, uncontrolled cholesterol level, current smoking | Yes |
| 3 | 78/F | HT, DM | Lacunar stroke (L hemiparesis) | R corona radiata | 4 | 5 (one) | 8 | Lacunar infarct, L corona radiata (R hemiparesis, dysarthria) | 40 | Moderate HT, uncontrolled DM, uncontrolled cholesterol level | Yes |
| 4 | 79/F | HT, DM | Lacunar stroke (R hemiparesis) | Multiple lacunes in L internal capsule and bilateral putamen | 14 | None | 14 | Lacunar infarct, R corona radiata (L hemiparesis, gait disturbance, incontinence) | 13 | Mild HT, uncontrolled cholesterol level | No |
| 5 | 81/M | Current smoking | Lacunar stroke (L hemiparesis) | Multiple lacunes in the R internal capsule, L corona radiata and bilateral putamen | 16 | None | 16 | R putaminal haemorrhage (L hemiparesis, consciousness disturbance) | 7 | Current smoking | Yes |
| 6 | 58/M | Past smoking | Normal, tension headache | None | 10 | All 10 (five) | 10 | L thalamic haemorrhage (R hemiparesis, R limb ataxia, R hypesthesia) | 70 | Mild HT | Yes |
| 7 | 63/F | DM | Normal, dizziness | None | 5 | None | 5 | Lacunar infarct, L pons (dysarthria) | 11 | Uncontrolled DM | No |