Vascular dementia--still overdiagnosed.

Vascular dementia--still overdiagnosed.

THE NOTION THAT SLOWLY progressive dementia in the elderly is the result of chronic diffuse brain hypoxia is largely discredited — Alzheimer disease has nothing to do with cerebral arteriosclerosis.' Nonetheless, it is still widely believed that many elderly people are demented on a cerebrovascular basis, most often in the form of "multi-infarct dementia.' ' Such a term does not refer to the ci...

Dementia: still muddling along?

Vascular Dementia

Cerebrovascular disease is the second leading cause of cognitive impairment in the elderly, either alone or in combination with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Vascular dementia (VaD) is heterogeneous in terms of both clinical phenotype and pathogenetic mechanisms. It may result from multiple cortical infarctions due to cerebral large vessel pathologies or to subcortical ischemic changes such as leuk...

Is asthma overdiagnosed?

Martin Luther likened human reason to a drunken man on horseback, alternately falling off to the left and then to the right. The same is true of diagnosing asthma; undoubtedly in the past it was underdiagnosed, but have we gone too far in the opposite direction? The evidence is that we have; for example, in an Australian paper, in which more than 100 children with chronic cough were investigate...

dementia still diagnosed too late - data from the czech republic.

the goal of the study is to evaluate the sensitivity of czech physicians to the early diagnosis of dementia in patients with memory impairment.a retrospective observational study was designed. we have reviewed the electronic medical records of patients who have been hospitalized for the first time due to dementia of any type at the kromeriz mental hospital from january 1, 2012 to december 31, 2...