Anticoagulation and cerebral small vessel disease

Cardiovascular diseases are usually complex and affect multiple organs simultaneously. Treatments for vascular diseases in the brain may therefore have implications for the treatment of cardiac diseases. It is thus important to understand the respective causes and effects. This study explores the causes of intracerebral hemorrhages and links them to the risk of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation. It suggests a fundamental new assessment of the effects of blood thinning on intracerebral hemorrhages.