Search for: [Abstract = "Leukoaraiosis, also called white matter hyperintensities or white matter disease, is a type of chronic symmetrical lesions of white matter in the brain, visible in neuroimaging, which are caused by a chronic disease of small cerebral blood vessels. Leukoaraiosis may occur in elderly people who do not have any neurological symptoms.Leukoaraiosis occurs much more frequently in the population of patients suffering from different neurological diseases related to age or, ex. degenerative diseases or cerebral vessel diseases than in the general population. The significance of leukoaraiosis as a factor to determine a prognosis after a cerebrovascular accident has been an object of only few pieces of research whose results are ambiguous.The aim of the study was to verify if leukoaraiosis detected on brain magnetic resonance \(MR\) is a factor to determine a prognosis in patients suffering from cerebral infarction. The detailed objectives were as follows\: 1\) How often does leukoaraiosis found on MR occur in the examined group of patients who suffer from acute ischemic stroke and how advanced is it in evaluation, using the Fazekas scale\? 2\) What are leukoaraiosis risk factors evaluated by means of the Fazekas scale and does leukoaraiosis correlate with a size of an ischemic focus assessed in DWI MR with the use of ASPECTS and pc\-ASPECTS\? 3\) Is leukoaraiosis an independent factor to determi"]

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