Abstract
In stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), presence and high number of strictly lobar cerebral microbleeds (compatible with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, CAA) seems to be associated with increased risk of hemorrhagic transformation, symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation, remote hemorrhage, and poor functional outcome. Some of these CAA patients with cerebral microbleeds also have chronic lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. Few data are available on IVT-treated CAA patients showing cortical superficial siderosis. There are no reports studying factors associated with brain hemorrhagic complication or functional outcome in IVT-treated CAA patients. We present a case series study of IVT-treated stroke patients with CAA features on pre-IVT MRI in whom we have evaluated brain hemorrhagic complications on 24 h-CT and functional outcome after IVT.