title: Acute watershed infarcts with global cerebral hypoperfusion in symptomatic CADASIL.
abstract: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is the most common form of hereditary cerebral angiopathy. We present a case in which a pattern of diffusion signal change compatible with bihemispheric acute watershed infarcts occurred in a symptomatic patient demonstrating global hypoperfusion. To our knowledge, watershed infarcts in the clinical presentation of CADASIL have not been previously described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurointerventional Radiology, St Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, USA. agordhana@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ajeet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gordhan
authors.forename: Brian K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D046589:CADASIL / Q000150:complications*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: CADASIL; Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infracts and leukoencephalopathy; Global cerebral hypoperfusion; MRI; Watershed infarcts