Recurrence of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation: A Report of Two Cases from the iCAβ International Network

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1071-1077

  DiFrancesco, Jacopo C ^a,b   Touat, Mehdi ^c,d   Caulo, Massimo ^e   Gallucci, Massimo ^f   Garcin, Béatrice ^c,g   Levy, Richard ^c,g   Uncini, Antonino ^e   Piazza, Fabrizio ^a,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^d Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^g PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^h Inflammatory Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy   (Italy)

ⁱ iCAB ITALY Study Group of the Italian Society for the Study of Dementia (SINdem)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; amyloid PET; amyloid related imaging abnormalities; cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation; iCA International Network; immunotherapy trials; inflammatory relapse; microhemorrhages; steroid treatment; vasogenic edema

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN; CARBON 11; GADOLINIUM; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY RELATED INFLAMMATION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FACE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GLAUCOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIMB; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PSORIASIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SIDEROSIS; STEREOTYPY; STEROID THERAPY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TONGUE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84937046669     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-150070     Document Type: Article

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