Vascular Cognitive Disorder. A Biological and Clinical Overview
@article{Battistin2010VascularCD, title={Vascular Cognitive Disorder. A Biological and Clinical Overview}, author={Leontino Battistin and Annachiara Cagnin}, journal={Neurochemical Research}, year={2010}, volume={35}, pages={1933-1938} }
Although vascular dementia (VaD) represents the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the elderly, and is referred as the “silent epidemic of the twenty-first century”, there is still a controversy on terminology, classification and diagnostic criteria of VaD. The diagnosis of VaD resides in clinical criteria determining a cognitive impairment, the presence of cerebrovascular disease and, only in the case of post-stroke dementia or multi-infarct dementia, a…
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