Genetically determined vascular diseases.

Review of literature data concerning genetically determined blood vessel diseases is presented. These disorders are a cause of a process similar to Binswanger's disease but occurring familial. Recurrent TIA, ischemic strokes and other kind of blood supply disturbances lead to numerous and various intensity vasogenic brain tissue damage, particularly in the white matter. Progressive neurological symptoms and dementia form the picture of subcortical leukoencephalopathy in several members of family. Moyamoya disease, fibromuscular dysplasia, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, two types of subcortical encephalopathy in Japan, HERNS and CADASIL are described.