Table 3 Comparison of important MRI manifestations of cerebral small vessel disease among the control group, NCI group and CI group.

From: The Relationship between Cerebral White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Function in Mild Stroke with Basal Ganglia Region Infarcts

 

control group (19 cases)

NCI group v(13 cases)

CI group (20 cases)

p1 value

p2 value

p3 value

Presence of white matter hyperintensities [cases/total (%)]

19/19 (100.00)

13/13 (100.00)

17/20 (85.00)

1.00

0.23

0.26

 Periventricular white matter hyperintensities [cases/total (%)]

19/19 (100.00)

13/13 (100.00)

17/20 (85.00)

1.00

0.23

0.26

 Fazekas scores [scores, median (quartile)]

1.00 (0.00)

2.00 (0.00)

1.00 (0.75)

0.04

0.45

0.02

 Deep white matter hyperintensities [cases/total (%)]

5/19 (26.32)

9/13 (69.23)

6/20 (30.00)

0.03

1.00

0.04

   Fazekas scores [scores, median (quartile)]

0.00 (1.00)

0.00 (1.00)

1.00 (1.00)

0.87

0.92

0.03

Presence of lacune [cases/total (%)]

7/19 (36.84)

9/13 (69.23)

14/20 (70.00)

0.15

0.06

1.00

 Basal ganglia [cases/total (%)]

7/19 (36.84)

6/13 (46.15)

11/20 (55.00)

0.72

0.33

0.73

 Subcortical regions [cases/total (%)]

3/19 (15.79)

4/13 (30.77)

5/20 (25.00)

0.40

0.70

1.00

 Subtentorial regions [cases/total (%)]

0/19 (0.00)

4/13 (30.77)

4/20 (20.00)

0.02

0.11

0.68

   Cortex [cases/total (%)]

0/19 (0.00)

1/13 (7.69)

6/20 (30.00)

0.41

0.02

0.20

Presence of Virchow-Robin spaces [cases/total (%)]

19/19 (100.00)

13/13 (100.00)

20/20 (100.00)

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Basal ganglia [cases/total (%)]

3.00 (3.00)

2.00 (1.00)

2.00 (2.00)

0.73

0.71

0.54

 Cortex [cases/total (%)]

4.00 (1.00)

2.00 (3.00)

4.00 (0.50)

0.43

0.15

0.02

Presence of microbleeds [cases/total (%)]

0/19 (0.00)

0/13 (0.00)

0/20 (0.00)

1.00

1.00

1.00

  1. p1: NCI group vs. control group; p2: CI group vs. control group; p3: NCI group vs. CI group.