8B22.3
category
Isolated cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Definition
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is characterised by the progressive accumulation of amyloid protein in the walls of small-to-medium-sized arteries and arterioles predominantly located in the leptomeningeal space, the cortex, and, to a lesser extent, also in the capillaries and veins.
Also indexed as
CAA - [cerebral amyloid angiopathy]Familial dementia, British typeFamilial dementia, Danish typeHereditary amyloid precursor protein angiopathyHereditary cerebral haemorrhage with amyloidosis, Dutch typeHereditary cerebral haemorrhage with amyloidosis, Icelandic typeHereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathyIsolated cerebral amyloid angiopathySporadic amyloid angiopathycerebrum amyloid angiopathycongophilic angiopathy
Nearby in Certain specified cerebrovascular diseases
8B22.0Dissection of cerebral arteries8B22.1Cerebral venous thrombosis8B22.2Cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes8B22.4Intracranial vascular malformation8B22.5Cerebral aneurysm, nonruptured8B22.6Familial cerebral saccular aneurysm8B22.7Cerebral arteritis, not elsewhere classified8B22.8Hypertensive encephalopathy