• Lancet neurology · Oct 2020

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    Potential human transmission of amyloid β pathology: surveillance and risks.

    • Elsa Lauwers, Giovanna Lalli, Sebastian Brandner, John Collinge, Veerle Compernolle, Charles Duyckaerts, Gustaf Edgren, Stéphane Haïk, John Hardy, Adel Helmy, Adrian J Ivinson, Zane Jaunmuktane, Mathias Jucker, Richard Knight, Robin Lemmens, I-Chun Lin, Seth Love, Simon Mead, V Hugh Perry, James Pickett, Guy Poppy, Sheena E Radford, Frederic Rousseau, Carol Routledge, Giampietro Schiavo, Joost Schymkowitz, Dennis J Selkoe, Colin Smith, Dietmar R Thal, Tom Theys, Pierre Tiberghien, Peter van den Burg, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Clare Walton, Hans L Zaaijer, Henrik Zetterberg, and Bart De Strooper.
    • VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neurosciences, Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
    • Lancet Neurol. 2020 Oct 1; 19 (10): 872878872-878.

    AbstractStudies in experimental animals show transmissibility of amyloidogenic proteins associated with prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases. Although these data raise potential concerns for public health, convincing evidence for human iatrogenic transmission only exists for prions and amyloid β after systemic injections of contaminated growth hormone extracts or dura mater grafts derived from cadavers. Even though these procedures are now obsolete, some reports raise the possibility of iatrogenic transmission of amyloid β through putatively contaminated neurosurgical equipment. Iatrogenic transmission of amyloid β might lead to amyloid deposition in the brain parenchyma and blood vessel walls, potentially resulting in cerebral amyloid angiopathy after several decades. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy can cause life-threatening brain haemorrhages; yet, there is no proof that the transmission of amyloid β can also lead to Alzheimer's dementia. Large, long-term epidemiological studies and sensitive, cost-efficient tools to detect amyloid are needed to better understand any potential routes of amyloid β transmission and to clarify whether other similar proteopathic seeds, such as tau or α-synuclein, can also be transferred iatrogenically.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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