We report on two Italian families with an early adultonset autosomal dominant disorder, characterized byleukoencephalopathy, migraine, psychiatric disturbances, stroke and dementia. These findings fulfill the diagnostic criteria for cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) syndrome. Moreover, to confirm the CADASIL gene location to 19p12, we performed a linkage analysis with four microsatellite markers. The results of the genetic study gave positive but not significant lod scores, indicating only weak evidence of a linkage with 19p12. In one autopsy case, we found extensive ischemic changes due to the selective involvement of the small muscular arteries of the cerebral white matter. The lesions consisted of a thickening of the media with deposition of granular eosinophilic material. Ultrastructural examination of the arterial walls showed graded damage to smooth muscle cells, mostly of the longitudinal layer, and an abnormalproliferation of basal lamina components. Immunocytochemical analysis showed strong reactivity using antibodies to collagen IV and smooth myosin proteins. The results suggest a primary involvement of the smooth muscle cells of small cerebral arteries, with a secondary alteration of basal lamina components and elastic tissue.

Clinicopathological and genetic studies of two further Italian families with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy / Malandrini, A.; Carrera, P.; Palmeri, S.; Cavallaro, T.; Fabrizi, G. M.; Villanova, M.; Fattapposta, M.; Vismara, L.; Brancolini, V.; Tanganelli, P.; Calì, A.; Morocutti, C.; Zeviani, M.; Ferrari, M.; Guazzi, G. C.. - In: ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA. - ISSN 0001-6322. - STAMPA. - 92:2(1996), pp. 115-122. [10.1007/s004010050498]

Clinicopathological and genetic studies of two further Italian families with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy

Morocutti, C.;
1996

Abstract

We report on two Italian families with an early adultonset autosomal dominant disorder, characterized byleukoencephalopathy, migraine, psychiatric disturbances, stroke and dementia. These findings fulfill the diagnostic criteria for cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) syndrome. Moreover, to confirm the CADASIL gene location to 19p12, we performed a linkage analysis with four microsatellite markers. The results of the genetic study gave positive but not significant lod scores, indicating only weak evidence of a linkage with 19p12. In one autopsy case, we found extensive ischemic changes due to the selective involvement of the small muscular arteries of the cerebral white matter. The lesions consisted of a thickening of the media with deposition of granular eosinophilic material. Ultrastructural examination of the arterial walls showed graded damage to smooth muscle cells, mostly of the longitudinal layer, and an abnormalproliferation of basal lamina components. Immunocytochemical analysis showed strong reactivity using antibodies to collagen IV and smooth myosin proteins. The results suggest a primary involvement of the smooth muscle cells of small cerebral arteries, with a secondary alteration of basal lamina components and elastic tissue.
1996
CADASIL; Cerebral arteriopathy; Leukoencephalopathy; Smooth muscle cell; 2734; Neurology (clinical); Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
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Clinicopathological and genetic studies of two further Italian families with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy / Malandrini, A.; Carrera, P.; Palmeri, S.; Cavallaro, T.; Fabrizi, G. M.; Villanova, M.; Fattapposta, M.; Vismara, L.; Brancolini, V.; Tanganelli, P.; Calì, A.; Morocutti, C.; Zeviani, M.; Ferrari, M.; Guazzi, G. C.. - In: ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA. - ISSN 0001-6322. - STAMPA. - 92:2(1996), pp. 115-122. [10.1007/s004010050498]
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