vascular dementia
Sign in to saveAlso known as multifocal dementia, Dementia, Vascular, Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease, Vascular cognitive impairment
dementia that involves impairments in cognitive function caused by problems in blood vessels that feed the brain
Key facts
- Other names
- Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease; , Vascular cognitive impairment
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , neurology
- Symptoms
- Cognitive impairment , Short-term memory loss
- Complications
- Heart disease , loss of ability to care for self and interact , pneumonia
- Causes
- Conditions that impair blood vessels in the brain and therefore interfere with oxygen delivery to the brain
- Risk factors
- High blood pressure , high cholesterol , atrial fibrillation , diabetes
- Diagnostic method
- Lab test, neuroimaging test, neuropsychological testing
- Differential diagnosis
- Alzheimer's disease
- Treatment
- Symptomatic
- Frequency
- 15–30% of dementia cases in the United States, Europe, and Asia
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
22,439 papers- Vascular dementia.Lancet (London, England) · 2015
- Pathophysiology and probable etiology of cerebral small vessel disease in vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2023
- Vascular dementia: From pathobiology to emerging perspectives.Ageing research reviews · 2024
- Vascular dementia: A microglia's perspective.Ageing research reviews · 2022
- Epidemiology of Vascular Dementia.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Vascular dementia.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vascular dementia
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34525
- health specialty
- neurology
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:8725
- ICD-9-CM
- 290.4
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- vinpocetine
- has phenotype
- dementia
- symptoms and signs
- dementia
- prevalence
- 0.016
- has cause
- diabetes
- medical examination
- psychological test
- possible treatment
- statin
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Vascular dementia is dementia caused by a series of strokes. Restricted blood flow due to strokes reduces oxygen and glucose delivery to the brain, causing cell injury and neurological deficits in the affected region. Subtypes of vascular dementia include subcortical vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, stroke-related dementia, and mixed dementia.
Subcortical vascular dementia occurs from damage to small blood vessels in the brain. Multi-infarct dementia results from a series of small strokes affecting several brain regions. Stroke-related dementia involving successive small strokes causes a more gradual decline in cognition. Dementia may occur when neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular pathologies are mixed, as in susceptible elderly people (75 years and older). Cognitive decline can be traced back to occurrence of successive strokes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vascular dementia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.