Progress on the correlation between cerebral venules and brain structural abnormalities

Abstract

With the development of pathology and neuroimaging, special staining techniques and imaging techniques have been used to identify and evaluate the characteristics of cerebral venules, and found that the decrease of cerebral venules, disruption of continuity and tortuousness, are correlated with the structural changes of white matter hyperintensity (WMH) and gray matter atrophy, suggesting that both white matter damage and the neurodegeneration processes are involved in the pathogenesis of cerebral venule system disease. This review combined the anatomical structure and detection methods of cerebral venules system to further understand and explore the pathogenesis of cerebral venules system diseases.

Keywords

• cerebral small vessel disease
• venules
• magnetic resonance imaging
• pathology
• review