Active clinical trials for "Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy"

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of Cerebril™ in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) patients who have had lobar cerebral hemorrhage.

Ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are the main causes of death among people. Antiplatelet threrapy is very important for patients to prevent ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.Ischemic cardiovascular patients of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) patients is as high as 20%, aspirin and clopidogrel is applied to prevent or treat the patient with CAA is controversial, there is no valid evidence of CAA crowd is safe to use of antiplatelet drugs, but progress in clinical treatment is usually based on patient condition for antiplatelet agents to prevent the occurrence of adverse events, such as blood clots.Therefore, this study is intended to be a single-center, prospective study of patients with ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases taking aspirin and clopidogrel, to determine whether the patients are combined with CAA , and to conduct a follow-up study for 12 months after team inclusion:1) The prevalence rate and gene spectrum of ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases among CAA patients enrolled in our hospital were analyzed;2) To explore the correlation between aspirin and clopidogrel drug genes and blood drug concentrations and diseases in patients with ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases complicated with CAA;3) To evaluate the efficacy and safety of aspirin and clopidogrel in patients with ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases who combined with CAA.

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) is a condition caused by the build-up of a protein called amyloid, predominantly Aβ40, within the walls of brain blood vessels, especially those blood vessels in the occipital lobe of the brain. Probable CAA may be defined as two or more hemorrhages in the brain cortex in individuals 55 years of age or older. This study will examine the study drug (PF-04360365) vs. placebo (saline) at 10 mg/kg - Day 1 and the maintenance dose of the study drug (PF-04360365) vs. placebo (saline) at 7.5mg/kg on Days 30 and 60. Subjects will be followed for 6 months after receiving the last dose of study medication.

Until now there is no medical treatment and/or intervention that can slow, stop or reverse the underlying neurodegenerative of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The goal of this study is to demonstrate "Oleocanthal rich-extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) consumption stops or delay mild cognitive impairment conversion to AD by restoring the blood-brain barrier (BBB) function in humans". Specific Aims: Evaluate effect of EVOO on the brain function by functional MRI (fMRI) imaging, and BBB function by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI). Evaluate effect of EVOO on cognitive function and on selected biomarkers

INTRODUCTION: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-ri) is a very rare manifestation of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, characterized by acute/subacute neurological deterioration and T2/FLAIR corticosubcortical or deep white matter hyperintensity. With the advent of new diagnostic criteria, there are more and more case reports and series reported; nevertheless, MRI findings and follow-up data need to be thoroughly described. OBJECTIVES: Our aim in this multicentrical and retrospective study was to describe the clinical and radiological features of patients with CAA-ri and assess long-term prognosis. METHODS: We reviewed the characteristics of 28 patients with CAA-ri including clinical data, systematic MRI analysis, cerebrospinal fluid results (including Alzheimer's disease biomarkers) and APOE genotype. HYPOTHESIS: We aimed at describing the clinical and radiological characteristics of a cohort of patients with CAA-ri.

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related intracerebral (CAAH) hemorrhage is second factor of primary intracerebral hemorrhage. However, no effective prevention and treatment strategies have been established. Remote ischemic conditioning is a neuroprotective strategy. In animal studies，RIC is efficiency in accelerating the absorption of hematoma. Therefore, the investigators plan to carry out this research to evaluate the safety and efficacy of RIC in patients with CAA related ICH.

In this project, we will try to enhance the diagnostic potentials of amyloid PET in CAA by combination of dynamic amyloid PET with MRI SWI and MR perfusion images. We will also try to investigate the roles of CAA in patients with drug-related ICH and validate the accuracy of clinical CAA diagnostic criteria. In addition, we will try to study the characteristics of long-term progression of amyloid deposition in CAA patients. This project will enroll 100 patients with ICH, 30 patients with AD, and 30 control subjects. Each patient will receive the above image studies, followed by data analysis and comparison.

By combination of plasma (Aβ40, Aβ42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau, etc.), genetic (ApoE ε2 or ε4 allele), MRI (cerebral perfusion, microbleeds, cortical superficial siderosis, enlarged perivascular space, etc.) and PET imaging (amyloid and tau) biomarkers, the study aims to Enhance the diagnostic potentials of the radiological biomarkers by combining MRI and amyloid PET in CAA patients. Investigate the biological pathogenesis in CAA patients using the less invasive plasma biomarkers and to correlate with structural and function imaging, including MRI, amyloid and tau imaging. Study the characteristics of long-term progression of amyloid deposition in CAA patients using the radiological, biochemical and genetic biomarkers. Study the prognosis predicting markers.

In this three-year proposal, we will explore the MRI-visible EPVS in CAA and investigate its pathophysiology using animal models. Our specific aims include: (1) Establish the relationship of MRI-visible enlarged perivascular space and CAA, (2) Determine whether vascular amyloid clearance in CAA is associated with lymphatic drainage system, (3) Establish longitudinal data for MRI-visible enlarged perivascular space and cerebral amyloid angiopathy progression.

Cerebellar superficial siderosis (SS) has been recently reported to be present in about 10% of both hereditary (n=50) and sporadic (n=46) cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) patients on 3T MRI using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) in the majority of patients. In that study, cerebellar SS was associated with a higher number of supratentorial lobar and superficial cerebellar macrobleeds (although cerebellar SS was not directly located adjacent to these cerebellar macrobleeds). It is unclear if cerebellar SS is caused by in situ leakage of cerebellar leptomeningeal vessels or rather represents hemorrhagic diffusion from cerebellar parenchymal micro/macrobleeds or from supratentorial bleeding sources via the tentorium cerebelli (TC).