[Comment] CT scanning to diagnose CAA: back to the future?

Most intracerebral haemorrhages are due to cerebral small vessel diseases hypertensive arteriopathy (arteriolosclerosis), which affects deep perforating vessels, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which affects superficial cortical and leptomeningeal vessels. Diagnosis of CAA is important because it has a high recurrence risk (7 ·4% per year in a pooled analysis of cohort studies)1 and might require specific prevention strategies (eg, modifying the use of antithrombotic drugs) or, in the future, disease-modifying treatments targeting vascular β-amyloid.

Source: Lancet Neurology - January 10, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Werring Tags: Comment Source Type: research