A new report describes two unusually young patients who developed cerebral amyloid angiopathy decades after childhood cardiac surgery. Researchers suspect amyloid-beta may have been inadvertently transmitted through cadaver-derived surgical material used at the time. The finding does not mean Alzheimer’s is contagious in everyday life, but it does add to evidence that rare past medical exposures may seed abnormal brain protein buildup years later.

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