Recent advance in cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation / 中华神经医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a disorder characterized by amyloid deposition in the walls of leptomeningeal and cortical arteries,arterioles,and it is one of the common cerebral vascular diseases in the elderly.Cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation (CAA-Ⅰ),is a recently recognized syndrome of reversible encephalopathy seen in a subset of patients with CAA.Here,we review the advances in research on the pathological mechanism,clinical features and course,investigations,diagnosis and differential diagnosis,and treatment of CAA-Ⅰ.