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angiopathy

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angiopathy [‚an·je′äp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
Any disease of the vascular system.


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Greenberg, a neurologist with the Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, noted that advances in detection are coming at a time when the incidence of hypertensive vasculopathy and cerebral amyloid angiopathy are expected to rise as the Baby Boom generation continues to age.
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When microbleeds occur in certain brain areas, they may indicate a type of small vessel disease known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy, in which the accumulation of amyloid (a protein often related to Alzheimer's disease) causes degeneration of smooth muscle cells and increases the susceptibility of blood vessels to ruptures and hemorrhages.
 
 
 
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