Clinical and radiological differences between patients with probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy and mixed cerebral microbleeds.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The key imaging features of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) are lobar, cortical, or cortico-subcortical microbleeds, macrohaemorrhages and cortical superficial siderosis (cSS). In contrast, hypertensive angiopathy is characterized by (micro) haemorrhages in the basal ganglia, thalami, periventricular white matter or the brain stem. Another distinct form of haemorrhagic microangiopathy is mixed cerebral microbleeds (mixed CMB) with features of both CAA and hypertensive angiopathy. The distinction between the two entities (CAA and mixed CMB) is clinically relevant because the risk of haemorrhage and stroke should be well balanced if oral anticoagulation is indicated in CAA patients. We aimed to comprehensively compare these two entities.

Methods

Patients with prob

SUBMITTER: Jensen-Kondering UR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674181 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature