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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation presenting with steroid-responsive higher brain dysfunction: case report and review of the literature

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Neuroinflammation, September 2011
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Title
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation presenting with steroid-responsive higher brain dysfunction: case report and review of the literature
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Journal of Neuroinflammation, September 2011
DOI 10.1186/1742-2094-8-116
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Hideya Sakaguchi, Akihiko Ueda, Takayuki Kosaka, Satoshi Yamashita, En Kimura, Taro Yamashita, Yasushi Maeda, Teruyuki Hirano, Makoto Uchino

Abstract

A 56-year-old man noticed discomfort in his left lower limb, followed by convulsion and numbness in the same area. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed white matter lesions in the right parietal lobe accompanied by leptomeningeal or leptomeningeal and cortical post-contrast enhancement along the parietal sulci. The patient also exhibited higher brain dysfunction corresponding with the lesions on MRI. Histological pathology disclosed β-amyloid in the blood vessels and perivascular inflammation, which highlights the diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)-related inflammation. Pulse steroid therapy was so effective that clinical and radiological findings immediately improved.CAA-related inflammation is a rare disease, defined by the deposition of amyloid proteins within the leptomeningeal and cortical arteries associated with vasculitis or perivasculitis. Here we report a patient with CAA-related inflammation who showed higher brain dysfunction that improved with steroid therapy. In cases with atypical radiological lesions like our case, cerebral biopsy with histological confirmation remains necessary for an accurate diagnosis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 78 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 18%
Other 12 15%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 11%
Student > Postgraduate 8 10%
Other 25 30%
Unknown 4 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 60%
Neuroscience 14 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Mathematics 1 1%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 8 10%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 May 2023.
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#5,165,207
of 25,368,786 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Neuroinflammation
#1,061
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#27,341
of 137,120 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Neuroinflammation
#9
of 34 outputs
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