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The Boston criteria version 2.0 increase the proportion of lobar intracerebral haemorrhage classified as probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request after approval by the SIGNAL study investigators.

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This work was undertaken at UCLH/UCL, which receives a proportion of funding from the Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres funding scheme.

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  1. Department of Neurology, **angya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Yang Du

  2. Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Stroke Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EH, UK

    Yang Du, Wenpeng Zhang, Martina Locatelli, Robert J. Simister, H. Rolf Jäger & David J. Werring

  3. Comprehensive Stroke Service, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK

    Robert J. Simister & David J. Werring

  4. Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK

    H. Rolf Jäger

  5. Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Martina Locatelli

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This retrospective study, based on a review of existing medical records, was approved as a service evaluation and granted a waiver of consent by the University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Governance Review Board (code: 5-201920-SE).

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The original online version of this article was revised: The text “A further 11 patients (91%)” Should read “A further 11 patients (9%)” in the third sentence of the third paragraph

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Du, Y., Zhang, W., Locatelli, M. et al. The Boston criteria version 2.0 increase the proportion of lobar intracerebral haemorrhage classified as probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy. J Neurol 270, 3243–3245 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11565-w

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