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Descriptor
English
:
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Descriptor
Spanish
:
angiopatía amiloide cerebral
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Angiopatia Amiloide Cerebral
Synonyms
English
:
Amyloid Angiopathy, Cerebral
Angiopathy, Cerebral Amyloid
Angiopathy, Congophilic
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathies
Congophilic Angiopathies
Congophilic Angiopathy
Sporadic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Tree Number:
C10.228.140.300.510.200.200
C14.907.253.560.200.200
C18.452.845.500.100
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
:
BL
blood
CF
cerebrospinal fluid
CI
chemically induced
CL
classification
CO
complications
CN
congenital
DI
diagnosis
DG
diagnostic imaging
DH
diet therapy
DT
drug therapy
EC
economics
EM
embryology
EN
enzymology
EP
epidemiology
EH
ethnology
ET
etiology
GE
genetics
HI
history
IM
immunology
ME
metabolism
MI
microbiology
MO
mortality
NU
nursing
PS
parasitology
PA
pathology
PP
physiopathology
PC
prevention & control
PX
psychology
RT
radiotherapy
RH
rehabilitation
SU
surgery
TH
therapy
UR
urine
VE
veterinary
VI
virology
Record Number:
30198
Unique Identifier:
D016657
Occurrence in VHL
:
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