Table 3 Comparison of important MRI manifestations of cerebral small vessel disease among the control group, NCI group and CI group.
control group (19 cases) | NCI group v(13 cases) | CI group (20 cases) | p1 value | p2 value | p3 value | |
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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 |