With an accuracy of 87%, basilar artery diameters were superior to all other MR measures for separating patients with Fabry disease (FD) from controls. Future studies should adopt basilar artery measurements for early detection and monitoring of brain involvement in FD. Moreover, further investigations should reveal if the dilated vasculopathy in FD could be a screening marker to detect FD in a cohort of other cerebrovascular diseases, especially in cryptogenic stroke.
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