Stroke in the young: vascular causes
Evidence-based neurology checklist on stroke in the young: vascular causes: Vasculopathies CADASIL COL4A1 mutations e.g. HANAC Fabry disease HERNS: TREX1 gene mutation Hypertensive encephalopathy Migraine with aura Mitochondrial disease Moyamoya disease Primary angiitis of the central nervous…
Vasculopathies
- CADASIL
- COL4A1 mutations e.g. HANAC
- Fabry disease
- HERNS: TREX1 gene mutation
- Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Migraine with aura
- Mitochondrial disease
- Moyamoya disease
- Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS)
- Pulmonary arteriovenous (AV) fistula
- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS)
- Radiation vasculopathy
- Buerger disease: thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO)
Prothrombotic conditions
Acronyms
References
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- Kaiser D, Leonhardt GK, Weiss N, Radosa CG, Linn J, Gerber JC, Puetz V. Pearls & Oy-sters: Primary cerebral Buerger disease: a rare differential diagnosis of stroke in young adults. Neurology 2021; 97:551-554.
