Unit for Aging Brain and Dementia, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, 35340, Balcova, Izmir, Turkey.
Department of Pathology, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Cell Tissue Bank. 2020 Sep;21(3):367-375. doi: 10.1007/s10561-020-09835-2. Epub 2020 May 20.
This study reports the results of the first brain tissue banking experience of Turkey in the Unit for Aging Brain and Dementia at Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Izmir. Here, we have briefly described our efforts on brain banking in our country, which consist of six brains from autopsies that had at least two years of clinical follow-up in the 2015-2017 period. The evaluation led to the diagnosis of two Alzheimer's disease (AD) with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, one AD with dementia with Lewy bodies, one corticobasal degeneration, one multiple system atrophy, one vascular dementia. We believe that the study is of a special importance because of its potential of becoming a brain banking center in the region and because of its contributing to the international knowledge of the neuropathological features of dementia, while characterizing the epidemiology of these diseases in the region.
本研究报告了土耳其在伊兹密尔第九大学衰老大脑和痴呆症单位进行的首例脑组织库经验的结果。在这里，我们简要描述了我们在该国进行脑组织库工作的努力，其中包括从 2015 年至 2017 年期间至少有两年临床随访的六例尸检大脑。评估导致了两个阿尔茨海默病（AD）伴脑淀粉样血管病、一个 AD 伴路易体痴呆、一个皮质基底节变性、一个多系统萎缩、一个血管性痴呆的诊断。我们认为这项研究具有特殊意义，因为它有可能成为该地区的脑组织库中心，并为国际上了解痴呆症的神经病理学特征做出贡献，同时描述了该地区这些疾病的流行病学特征。
