Abstract TP295: Different Patterns of Subcortical White Matter Disease in Patients with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Objective: We aimed to identify the potential contributions of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and hypertensive microvasculopathy on periventricular (PV) and subcortical (SC) white matter disease (WMD). Methods: Total, SC and PV WMD volumes of 359 CAA patients and 102 patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (htn-ICH) were quantitatively measured on FLAIR MRI. The presence of 6 different subcortical WMD patterns (detailed under Results and Figure 1) was recorded. The independent predictors of each of these WMD variables were explored using multivariate models that included the diagnosis (CAA vs htn-ICH), age, gender, ApoE genotype, vascular risk factors, total WMD volume as well as lobar and deep microbleed (MB) counts from T2*MRI. Results: CAA patients were older (mean 74 vs 68, p Conclusions: Our results show that CAA pathology is associated with the severity of both PV and SC WMD as well as presence of severe posterior and anterior SC disease. A pattern of deep peri-basal ganglia WMD is mostly associated with hypertensive disease. Recognition of these patterns might help understand the dominant type of microvasculopathy in older individuals with WMD.