Abstract:Background
Intracranial atherosclerotic stroke (ICAS) is strongly associated with single and multiple infarctions. The present study aimed to assess the associations of imaging-based lesion category and intracranial atherosclerosis burden (ICASB) with ischemic stroke (IS), and to determine whether multiple infarctions may be related to increased prevalence of ICASB.
Methods
In this study, 2864 consecutive cases from 22 Chinese hospitals who had acute cerebral ischemia < 7 days after symptom onset were inc… Show more
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