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Abstract #3913

Intracranial vessel wall abnormalities in young stroke patients at 7.0 tesla MRI

Nikki Dieleman 1 , Anja G. van der Kolk 1 , Susanne J. van Veluw 2 , Anita A. Harteveld 1 , Catharina J.M. Frijns 2 , Peter R. Luijten 1 , and Jeroen Hendrikse 1

1 Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Ischemic stroke is relatively rare in young patients, and often not caused by atherosclerosis, but by other, more difficult to diagnose diseases, like intracranial dissections, cardioembolic stroke and vasculitis. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate patterns of vessel wall abnormalities in young stroke patients using 7T intracranial vessel wall MRI. Our results show that in this patient group with heterogeneous causes of ischemic stroke, different patterns of vessel wall abnormalities exist, which may serve as diagnostic marker for the discrimination between the different causes of stroke in young patients.

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