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Washington University Experience | VASCULAR | Atherosclerosis | 17A1 Infarct, remote, atherosclerosis, AD (Case 17) _1

Case 17 History ---- This was an 87 year old woman with a gradual, insidious 17 year course of Alzheimer disease following a pattern of slow, gradual decline in all domains of memory and thinking.---- At autopsy her unfixed, fresh brain weighed 1,050g. She received a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change (High; A3, B3, C3; NIA-AA scheme) and had numerous microinfarcts in the frontal lobe gray matter. ---- 17A1,2 Marked atherosclerosis of the circle of Willis with few atheromata involving the lateral hemispheric vasculature.

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