Comparison of Post-mortem 7.0-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brains of Alzheimer Patients with and without Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy









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(ISSN 2638-1311)
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Cerebrovascular Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease
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Guest Editor
Jacques De Reuck, MD, PhD
Professor, Université Lille 2, INSERM U1171 Degenerative & Vascular Cognitive Disorders, Lille, France
Research Interests: Dementia; cognitive impairment; Alzheimer's disease; ischemic stroke; neurodegenerative diseases; cerebrovascular diseases; vascular dementia
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The significance of small cerebrovascular lesions is frequently overlooked in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. These lesions are most commonly due to cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which is mainly associated in the end-stages of the disease. Also Alzheimer’s disease can be mixed with arteriosclerotic small-vessel disease. The most common small cerebrovascular lesions are cortical micro-bleeds, cortical micro-infarcts, white matter changes, lacunar infarcts and superficial cortical siderosis. These lesions can be best detected with 7.0-tesla magnetic resonance imaging in vivo and on post-mortem examination, when the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease has to be confirmed for the family.
The final message is that in patients with suspected Alzheimer’s disease the vascular risk factors, such as arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes, have to be treated as early as possible and smoking has to be avoided.
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Comparison of Post-mortem 7.0-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brains of Alzheimer Patients with and without Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathyby
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abstract Purpose: The influence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains unexplored. The present post-mortem study investigated possible differences in the degree of hippocampal atrophy (HA) between AD patients with and without CAA using 7.0-tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Also, the incidence of the hippocampal [...] |
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