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Silent cerebral infarcts in basal ganglia are advanced in congenital protein C-deficient heterozygotes with hypertension.

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:Congenital protein C deficiency is now widely recognized as a genetic risk for venous thrombosis. However, it remains uncertain whether this condition also confers risk for arterial thrombosis. We evaluated the association of congenital protein C deficiency with hypertension and silent cerebrovascular disease using brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (T1- and T2-weighted and proton density images) in a large family pedigree of protein C deficiency diagnosed by gene analysis, compared with 46 non-pedigree related control subjects with normal protein C levels (> or = 75%) who were selected from among 55 asymptomatic hypertensive subjects matched for age and cardiovascular risk factors. Of the 58 living subjects in this pedigree, we measured plasma protein C levels in 45 subjects, and found 2 cerebral infarctions in the 24 heterozygotic subjects, whereas there was no stroke in the 21 normal homozygotic subjects. We performed brain MRI in 14 asymptomatic hypertensive subjects without any cardiovascular disease and in two patients with cerebral infarction, and found 28 cerebral infarcts (two corresponded to the patients' neurologic deficits and 26 were silent). All were lacunar infarcts < 10 cm in size. A total of 25 silent lacunar infarcts were found in nine heterozygotic subjects, whereas only one was found in the seven normal homozygotic subjects (2.8 v 0.14 lacunes per person, P = .002). No advanced white matter hyperintense lesions in T2-weighted images were found in either group. The prevalence of silent lacunar infarcts in the heterozygotic subjects was also significantly higher than that in normal control subjects (1.0 per person, P = .01). Concerning the distribution of silent infarcts, the number of lacunes located in the basal ganglia was higher in the heterozygotic subjects (2.3 per person, P < .001) than in the seven normal homozygotic subjects (0.14 per person) or in the control group (0.28 per person), whereas the number of lacunes in the white matter was not different among the groups. In conclusion, congenital protein C deficiency may accelerate the progression of silent cerebral infarct formation in hypertension, particularly in the basal ganglia, and may be a potential risk for stroke or vascularly induced dementia.

journal_name

Am J Hypertens

journal_title

American journal of hypertension

authors

Kario K,Sakata T,Higashikawa M,Katayama Y,Hoshide S,Shimada K,Miyata T

doi

10.1016/s0895-7061(01)02046-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-08-01 00:00:00

pages

818-22

issue

8 Pt 1

eissn

0895-7061

issn

1941-7225

pii

S0895-7061(01)02046-5

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Silent cerebral infarcts in basal ganglia are advanced in congenital protein C-deficient heterozygotes with hypertension.