Non-inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy as a cause of rapidly progressive dementia: A case study

Non-inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy as a cause of rapidly progressive dementia: A case study

Abstract A 77 year-old men developed a subacute-onset, rapidly progressive cognitive decline. After 6 months of evolution, he scored 6 on the Mini-Mental State Examination and had left hemiparesis and hemineglect. The patient died 11 months after the onset of cognitive symptoms. Brain MRI showed mic...

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Main Authors: Leonel Tadao Takada, Paulo Camiz, Lea T. Grinberg, Claudia da Costa Leite
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
Subjects:
dementia
cerebral amyloid angiopathy
vascular dementia.
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642009000400352&lng=en&tlng=en

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