[Transient ischemic attack in amyloid angiopathy].
Two cases of cerebral amyloid angiopathy with transient ischemic attacks are reported. Both patients died of cerebral hemorrhage. Transient ischemic attacks seem to having been due to the cerebral angiopathy a disease in which small infarcts are frequently mentioned at post-mortem examination. However only 6 other cases of transient ischemic attacks with cerebral amyloid angiopathy have yet been reported.
Chamouard
J M
JM
Clinique Neurologique, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
Duyckaerts
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C
Rancurel
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Poisson
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M
Buge
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A
D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002539:Cerebral Arterial Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000209:etiology*; D011379:Prognosis
Accès ischémiques transitoires au cours d'une angiopathie amyloïde.