Diseases

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

A heterogeneous group of sporadic or familial disorders characterized by AMYLOID deposits in the walls of small and medium sized blood vessels of CEREBRAL CORTEX and MENINGES. Clinical features include multiple, small lobar CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; cerebral ischemia (BRAIN ISCHEMIA); and CEREBRAL INFARCTION. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is unrelated to generalized AMYLOIDOSIS. Amyloidogenic peptides in this condition are nearly always the same ones found in ALZHEIMER DISEASE. (from Kumar: Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed., 2005)

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A heterogeneous group of sporadic or familial disorders characterized by AMYLOID deposits in the walls of small and medium sized blood vessels of CEREBRAL CORTEX and MENINGES. Clinical features include multiple, small lobar CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; cerebral ischemia (BRAIN ISCHEMIA); and CEREBRAL INFARCTION. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is unrelated to generalized AMYLOIDOSIS. Amyloidogenic peptides in this condition are nearly always the same ones found in ALZHEIMER DISEASE. (from Kumar: Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed., 2005)

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  • Amyloid Angiopathy, Cerebral
  • Congophilic Angiopathy
  • Angiopathy, Cerebral Amyloid
  • Angiopathy, Congophilic
  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathies
  • Congophilic Angiopathies
  • Sporadic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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/genet:consider also CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY, FAMILIAL

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1992

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  • Amyloidosis (1974-1991)
  • Cerebrovascular Disorders (1974-1991)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016657. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016657
  2. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_amyloid_angiopathy
  3. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191562