A New CARASIL Family: Recurrent Lobar Hemorrhage as a Novel Characteristic of the Disease

January 2025 in “ Turkish Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases ”

Özlem Kayım Yıldız, Malik Ejder Yıldırım, Tuğçe Beyzanur Arısoy, Bülent Okan Yıldız

Studysummary This case report details two consanguineous patients with cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy, both having the same HTRA1 gene mutation, but exhibiting different clinical presentations, including one with epileptic seizures and lobar hemorrhages—previously undocumented in this condition.

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