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Recurrent lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in Tangier disease.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association - 1 Nov 2012
Feng Wuwei, Sidorov Evgeny, Smith Kara, Selim Magdy
Abstract excerpt
We report a patient with familial α-lipoprotein deficiency (Tangier disease) who presented with recurrent lobar intracerebral hemorrhages and accumulating microbleeds on T*2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, suggestive of probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy. This case provides new insight into the links between the adenotriphosphate-binding cassette A1 (ABCA1) transporter gene mutation in Tangier disease and...
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