How multi-infarct encephalopathy reflects on cognitive functioning after first ever ischemic stroke?

The term “vascular cognitive impairment” was defined as cognitive dysfunction due to or associated with cerebro-vascular disease or vascular risk factors.1–4 The conception of vascular cognitive impairment originated on the basis of the idea of the possible reversibility of vascular dementia in its preclinical and early clinical stages and searching for appropriate therapies for its primary and secondary prevention and treatment especially in high-risk groups.2,4,5 The role for such reversibility had processes as cognitive reserve and neuroplasticity.6–9 The most common variants of vascular cognitive impairment were postroke cognitive impairment and multi-infarct cognitive impairment.3,4