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Cerebrovascular Lesions: Diagnosis and Management, 2nd Edition
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Cerebrovascular Lesions: Diagnosis and Management, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 844

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hung-Chieh Chen

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1. Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
2. School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
Interests: neuroimaging; diagnostic neuroradiology; pediatric neuroradiology; spine images
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Dear Colleagues,

Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke are the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Survivors often suffer from significant morbidity or complications. Cerebrovascular diseases can develop from a variety of causes, including atherosclerosis, thrombosis, embolic events, or vascular lesions. Accurate diagnosis and proper management are important to achieve better outcomes and decrease complications.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect studies that focus on the pathophysiology, diagnostic methods, potential pitfalls, and treatment methods of cerebrovascular diseases. Thus, this Special Issue will provide insight into the latest medical progress in cerebrovascular diseases and could establish the foundation for advanced future studies. We welcome the submission of original research articles, focused reviews, and pictorial essays or case reports focusing on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognostic evaluation of cerebrovascular diseases.

Dr. Hung-Chieh Chen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • stroke
  • aneurysm
  • vascular malformation
  • computed tomography (CT)
  • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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Assessment of Inter-Reader Reliability of Fazekas Scoring on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
by Aoife M. Haughey, Roisin M. O’Cearbhaill, Stephanie Forté, Joanna D. Schaafsma, Kevin H. M. Kuo and Igor Gomes Padilha
Diagnostics 2025, 15(7), 857; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics15070857 - 27 Mar 2025
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Background/Objectives: Cerebral white matter disease is a common finding in patients with sickle cell that has been linked to cognitive impairment. However, there is no standardized approach for quantification of the cerebral disease burden. The Fazekas score is widely used to quantify [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Cerebral white matter disease is a common finding in patients with sickle cell that has been linked to cognitive impairment. However, there is no standardized approach for quantification of the cerebral disease burden. The Fazekas score is widely used to quantify the burden of white matter disease in chronic small vessel disease. However, its utility in sickle cell disease, specifically the inter-rater variability, has not been established. Methods: A patient cohort was compiled for the purpose of a research ethics board (REB)-approved retrospective study of adult patients with sickle cell disease, each of whom underwent MRI/MRA between the years 2017 and 2019. A total of 90 such patients were captured. All MRI/MRA studies were performed on three Tesla MRIs. Two independent neuroradiologists assessed the axial FLAIR MRI brain sequence (see image 1) for each of the 90 patients, with the sole focus of assigning a Fazekas score (0–3) to each study as a means of quantifying the burden of ischemic white matter lesions. The neuroradiologists were blinded to the scoring assigned by their counterpart and to the clinical information. After the initial assessment was completed, studies with discrepant Fazekas scores were documented and discussed by both readers. A consensus Fazekas score was then assigned to each of these studies. Results: Cohen’s weighted kappa was used as a measure of agreement between readers. The expected agreement was 74.65%, with an observed agreement of 94.44% between readers, with a kappa of 0.7808. Conclusions: We conclude on the basis of our study that there is good inter-reader reliability of Fazekas scoring on axial FLAIR MRI brain sequence in patients with sickle cell disease. The Fazekas is a promising measure that could easily be integrated in systematic evaluation of cerebrovascular lesions of adults with sickle cell disease. Full article
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