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Descriptor
English
:
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Angiopatía Amiloide Cerebral
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Angiopatia Amilóide Cerebral
Synonyms
English
:
Amyloid Angiopathy, Cerebral
Congophilic Angiopathy
Sporadic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Tree Number:
C10.228.140.300.510.200.200
C14.907.253.560.200.200
C18.452.090.100
Definition
English
:
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)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
/genet:consider also
CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY
, FAMILIAL
History Note
English
:
1992
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
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cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced
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physiopathology
parasitology
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radiography
rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy
surgery
therapy
urine
ultrasonography
veterinary
virology
Record Number:
30198
Unique Identifier:
D016657
Occurrence in VHL
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