RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cerebral amyloid angiopathy in dementia and old age.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 1221
OP 1226
DO 10.1136/jnnp.49.11.1221
VO 49
IS 11
A1 Esiri, M M
A1 Wilcock, G K
YR 1986
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/49/11/1221.abstract
AB A necropsy study of 159 elderly patients drawn mainly from a prospectively assessed geriatric hospital population was carried out to investigate the relationship of cerebral amyloid angiopathy to Alzheimer's disease, other CNS disease and ageing. About half the patients were demented and the majority of these had Alzheimer's disease. In Alzheimer's disease there was an incidence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy of 82%. Among the other groups of patients, both demented and non-demented, the incidence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy was a little over 30%, and remained constant between 60 and 102 years of age.