BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
The role of the venous compartment in cerebral small vessel disease has yet to be fully understood. As such, we evaluated how deep medullary vein (DMV) integrity relates to MRI-based small vessel disease severity markers and glymphatic function assessed by DTI measures in patients with a recent small subcortical infarct.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We gathered demographic, clinical, and 3T MRI imaging data from 50 patients with a recent small subcortical infarct. We evaluated…