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MEDICINA-LITHUANIA
Volume 58, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/medicina58101446
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central nervous system vasculitis; PACNS; amyloid-related brain inflammation; systemic vasculitis neurologic manifestations
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Inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system vessels can have serious consequences, emphasizing the importance of timely diagnosis and treatment.
Inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) vessels, also called CNS vasculitides, can cause substantial disability or even be fatal. Inflammation of the CNS vessels can be caused by primary angiitis of the CNS (PACNS), inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy, or systemic inflammatory disorders. Clinical symptoms of these disorders are often non-specific, such as encephalopathy, cognitive and affective abnormalities, headache and focal neurological symptoms. Diagnostic workup includes a thorough neuropsychiatric examination, blood and cerebrospinal fluid analysis and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and its vessels. Biopsy of the brain remains the gold standard diagnostic test. Timely diagnosis and treatment initiation is of high importance, as it might prevent severe complications, such as ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. In this review, we describe the specific characteristics of primary and secondary non-infectious CNS vasculitides which help to establish the diagnosis, discuss the peculiarities of the diagnostic workup and present current treatment recommendations.
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