Response to treatment with corticoids in a case of inflammatory amyloid angiopathy without performing a biopsy;AlzheiRespuesta al tratamiento con corticoides en un caso de angiopatía amiloide inflamatoria sin realización de biopsia

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 408-412

  de la Riva, Patricia ^a   Moreno, Fermín ^a   Carrera, Nieves ^a   Barandiarán, Myriam ^a   Arruti, Maialen ^a   Martí Massó, José F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Angiopathy; Biopsy; Corticoids; Encephalopathy; Inflammatory; Microbleeding

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PREDNISONE;

AGED; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENOTYPE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSARTHRIA; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BIOPSY; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSARTHRIA; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; PARESIS; PREDNISONE; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84867254672     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.5507.2012155     Document Type: Note

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