A decreased cognitive ability may develop in some persons before cerebral hemorrhage occurs. A CT scan or MRI of the head shows lobar intracerebral hemorrhage . An angiography of the brain may be used to rule out arteriovenous malformation as the cause of the bleed. Senile cerebral amyloid angiopathy is not specifically diagnosed until after death when a postmortem biopsy reveals amyloid deposits in the blood vessels of the brain. There is no known effective treatment.
Treatment is supportive and based on the control of symptoms.
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