Authors ’ Response to “Barometric Pressure in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Pressure to Bleed?”

The authors thank Dr. Vilanilam et al ’ comments to our recent article entitled “The Influence of Weather on the Incidence of Primary Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (sICH)”. A study exclusively examining the influence of weather on patients with possible/probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) may be helpful, although one would have to assume that elevations in blood pressure play no role in causing sICH in these patients. Furthermore, establishing a priori knowledge of normotension and CAA pathology would be difficult, and would require a large study population with serial blood pressure monitoring and MRI scans li miting feasibility.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - April 19, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Rajeev Kumar Garg, Bichun Ouyang, Vishal Pandya, Raquel Garcia-Cano, Ivan Da Silva, Deborah Hall, Sayona John, Thomas Pritchett Bleck, Max Berkelhammer Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research