Case of Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer Disease With Ribbon-Like Cortical Calcifications
A 69-year-old man presented with recurrent headaches for 20 years, walking instability for 8 years, and memory loss and personality changes for 5 years.Those symptoms worsened 2 years Figure Cranial CT and MRI Findings of the Patient Carrying p.K687Q Pathogenic Variant in APP Cranial CT revealed "ribbon-like" (yellow arrowhead) cortical calcifications in the bilateral occipital cortex (A-C), which presented as hypointensities in the susceptibility-weighed imaging (D-F).Cranial MRI also showed diffuse symmetrical white matter hyperintensities in fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging, resembling the presentations of cerebral small vessel disease (G-I).
Authors
- Yan‐Jiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6227-6112)
- Fan Zeng
- Yuanyuan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-0989)
Institutions
- Army Medical University (CN)
- Daping Hospital (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurology
- Published
- 2024-09-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000209860
- Primary Topic
- Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing