Steroid-responsive recurrent encephalopathy in a patient with cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-69

  McHugh, John C ^a   Ryan, Aisling M ^a   Lynch, Timothy ^a   Dempsey, Elizabeth ^a   Stack, John ^a   Farrell, Michael A ^b   Kelly, Peter J ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; PHENYTOIN; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846291831     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097030     Document Type: Article

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