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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy

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Hello @cbenson524 Nice to e-meet you here although I am sorry to read of your health challenges. They are never easy and the journey rarely smooth or what we anticipate it might be! Connect is a lovely and caring community, which has broad shoulders and sympathetic listening skills! I hope you continue to find some help here and that your upcoming visits to your new doctor(s) at Penn will be of solid assistance!

I wish you continued strength, courage, and peace!

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Thank you, Sir. I have enjoyed nearly 65 years of almost perfect health, so this aging thing is sort of naively unexpected for me. I have read much about CAA over the past 6 weeks, and there have been some allusions to the possibility that CAA may in some way be related to autoimmune diseases. Both my parents had severe, severe rheumatoid arthritis, the complications of which killed them both. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, so there may be some kind of correlation. Or not. Who knows? Anyway, thank you for your kind welcome.