Diagnosis of Vascular Dementia: Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research Concensus Statement

Clinical criteria for the diagnosis of vascular dementia.

The clinical diagnosis of dementia includes medical history, neurological examination, psychiatric interview and dementia scale. The identification of conditions producing dementia can only be achieved by adding to the clinical information the data gathered from ancillary investigations. The usual ancillary diagnostic investigations (biochemical tests, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), EEG, CT, MRI, a...

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Cognitive Features of Vascular Dementia

A lot of studies have focused on cerebrovascular disease as an independent cause of dementia. In a study with consecutive stroke patients aged sixty and older, 26.3% of patients were demented three months after the stroke (Desmond et al., 2000). Within the demented patients, 57.1% had dementia directly related with stroke and 38.7% had dementia due to the combined effects of stroke and Alzheime...

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Clinical Forms of Vascular Dementia

The presence of vascular dementia (VaD) is largely unrecognized and untreated in the elderly (1,2). The typical history is that of an elderly parent or grandparent who fails to regain the previous level of function and independence after a stroke. More often, in the absence of the heralding stroke symptoms, the family notices that the patient has become depressed and apathetic, exhibits persona...