[Pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of sporadic cerebral small vessel disease]

Sporadic small vessel disease (sSVD) is one of the most common vascular disease of the central nervous system (CNS). It is the main cause of lacunar stokes, hemorrhages to deep brain regions and chronic CNS diseases such as vascular parkinsonism and dementia. Beside a high and growing incidence of sSVD especially in the elderly population, the knowledge of ethiopathogenesis and optimal treatment of sSVD have not been established. The article summarizes different clinical manifestations (acute and chronic) as well as heterogenous radiologic changes found in CNS neuroimaging.