1. [Inflammation as part of cerebral amyloid angiopathy disguised as a tumour].
- Author
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Holm-Yildiz S, Poulsen MB, Damgaard B, and Mørk H
- Subjects
- Aged, Brain Edema diagnostic imaging, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy drug therapy, Glucocorticoids administration & dosage, Glucocorticoids therapeutic use, Humans, Inflammation drug therapy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate administration & dosage, Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate therapeutic use, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Brain Edema etiology, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy complications, Inflammation etiology
- Abstract
A male with probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)-related inflammation presented with headache and subacute hemi-paresis. After admission he developed a disturbance of consciousness and a CT brain scan showed oedema with significant midline shift. He was treated with corticosteroids with prompt clinical improvement. A MR brain scan after treatment showed confluent T2-weighted lesions, microbleeds and regression of oedema. The patient was discharged in habitual status. During withdrawal of corticosteroids he showed clinical and radiological signs of relapsing CAA-related inflammation.
- Published
- 2014