Clinical features of non-hypertensive lobar intracerebral hemorrhage related to cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
OBJECTIVE
The present study aims to clarify the clinical features of non-hypertensive cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (CAA-L-ICH).


METHODS
We investigated clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging findings in 41 patients (30, women; 11, men) with pathologically supported CAA-L-ICH from 303 non-hypertensive Japanese patients aged >OR=55, identified via a nationwide survey as symptomatic CAA-L-ICH.


RESULTS
The mean age of patients at onset of CAA-L-ICH was 73.2 +/- 7.4 years; the number of patients increased with age. The corrected female-to-male ratio for the population was 2.2, with significant female predominance. At onset, 7.3% of patients received anti-platelet therapy. In brain imaging studies, the actual frequency of CAA-L-ICHs was higher in the frontal and parietal lobes; however, after correcting for the estimated cortical volume, the parietal lobe was found to be the most frequently affected. CAA-L-ICH recurred in 31.7% of patients during the average 35.3-month follow-up period. The mean interval between intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs) was 11.3 months. The case fatality rate was 12.2% at 1 month and 19.5% at 12 months after initial ICH. In 97.1% of patients, neurosurgical procedures were performed without uncontrollable intraoperative or post-operative hemorrhage.


CONCLUSIONS
Our study revealed the clinical features of non-hypertensive CAA-L-ICH, including its parietal predilection, which will require further study with a larger number of patients with different ethnic backgrounds.
Hirohata
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Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan.
Yoshita
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Ishida
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Ikeda
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Tamaoka
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A
Kuzuhara
S
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Shoji
M
M
Ando
Y
Y
Tokuda
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T
Yamada
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M
D017677:Age Distribution; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016657:Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged