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Familial dementia, Danish type

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Familial dementia, Danish type – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/2086401830

This is a disease of the blood vessels in which amyloid deposits form in the walls of the blood vessels of the cerebrum. It is due to a decamber duplication that disrupts the stop codon of the ITM2B (or BRI2) gene.