Carotid intima-media thickness and cerebral white matter lesions are more advanced in acute ischemic stroke patients with renal dysfunction

Abstract

In patients with acute ischemic stroke, the incidence of renal dysfunction was high like that of heart disease. In the eGFR < 60 ml group, carotid IMT was larger and the incidence of PVH was higher, so these patients presumably had more advanced atherosclerotic changes of the cerebral vessels.