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Peter Vanacker, MD; Natalie Nelissen, MD; Koen Van Laere, MD, PhD; Vincent N. Thijs, MD

Arch Neurol. 2009;66(6):796-797.

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Multiple scattered microbleeds on gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging may be found as a consequence of cerebral microangiopathy due to hypertension, amyloid angiopathy, or hemorrhagic conversion of cardiac emboli or artery to artery embolization.¹ Amyloid deposition in the setting of Alzheimer disease or intracerebral hemorrhage can be studied in humans by performing carbon 11 ([¹¹C])–labeled Pittsburgh Compound B positron emission tomography. This positron emission tomography tracer has a high affinity for vascular as well as plaque β-amyloid and is increasingly being used in the evaluation of cognitive disturbance and stroke.²

A 60-year-old woman was admitted with acute onset of left-sided weakness and a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of 4. She was treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator after intracerebral hemorrhage was ruled out on computed tomography. Her medical history was unremarkable. Diffusion-weighted . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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