Cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Abstract

The aim of this report was to describe the case of an elderly patient with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated dementia who presented with new onset symptomatology compatible with an acute cerebrovascular event. Computed tomography scanning was suggestive of an incipient ischemic cerebrovascular event. Magnetic resonance imaging was requested due to the presence of small hyperdense lesions on CT, and revealed multiple diffuse hypodense parenchymal lesions with hemosiderin deposits, indicative of cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Diagnosis of the underlying pathology is of importance, as aspirin use, and antiplatelet use in general, may in these patients be associated with microbleed burden.