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Routine Use of Gradient-Echo MRI to Screen for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Elderly Patients AJR 182:1547-1550, Walker,D.A., et al, 2004 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The addition of gradient-refocused echo sequences to routine brain MRI resulted in the identification of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related microbleeding in 15.5% of elderly patients. In most (86.7%) of these patients with positive findings, cerebral amyloid angiopathy was not suspected clinically, and 46.7% of these patients were undergoing anticoagulant or aspirin therapy, placing them at an increased risk of recurrent intracranial hemorrhage and catastrophic stroke.

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