Surgery may be seeding brain diseases

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3166, 2018, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We may need to rethink sterilisation procedures after the revelation that brain operations seem to have spread proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease. People who have Alzheimer's disease typically have plaques of sticky amyloid proteins in their brains, although it remains unclear whether these are a cause or a consequence of the condition. Sebastian Brandner at University College London and his team have been investigating the cases of eight people who developed cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) at a younger age. Medical records revealed that all eight underwent brain surgery during childhood or their teenage years for a variety of reasons