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Cystatin C mutation in an elderly man with sporadic amyloid angiopathy and intracerebral hemorrhage.
Stroke - 1 Nov 1995
Graffagnino C, Herbstreith M H, Schmechel D E, Levy E, Roses A D, Alberts M J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) occurs both sporadically and as a result of mutations in either cystatin C or the amyloid precursor protein. ICH due to cystatin C mutations typically occurs in young people of Icelandic origin. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of sporadic CAA with ICH in an elderly Croatian man with a mutation in cystatin C identical to that...
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