Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / A rare cause of monogenic cerebral small vessel disease and stroke: Cathepsin A-related arteriopathy with strokes and leukoencephalopathy (CARASAL).
Cathepsin A-related arteriopathy with strokes and leukoencephalopathy (CARASAL) is a rare monogenic cause of cerebral small vessel disease. To date, fewer than 15 patients with CARASAL have been described, all of common European ancestry.