Highlights: Characteristics of vascular dementia patients with a history stroke was aimed. The most characteristics are men, post-ischemic stroke, hypertension grade 1, and lesions in the basal ganglia. Abstract: Stroke increase each year. is cerebrovascular disorder caused by disruption cerebral blood flow, which could reason within mind parenchyma to be threat significant disorders. One them ...

The early detection of poststroke dementia (PSD) is important for medical practitioners to customize patient treatment programs based on cognitive consequences and disease severity progression. The aim is to diagnose and detect brain degenerative disorders as early as possible to help stroke survivors obtain early treatment benefits before significant mental impairment occurs. Neuropsychologica...

background: the objectives of this study were to compare manual dexterity (gross and fine) and coordination performance of the ipsilateral upper extremity of the right hemisphere stroke patients with the same side of a healthy group, and to determine the relationship of ipsilateral upper extremity dexterity and disability. methods: in a non-randomized analytical study, 30 individuals with a uni...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the relation between stroke related features and cognitive performance over time when stroke patients with dementia or less severe cognitive disorders are considered separately. We aimed to study the features (computed tomography (CT) scan and demographic) that could be related to vascular cognitive impairment one, six, and 12 months after stroke. METHODS A tot...

Post-stroke cognitive impairment occurs frequently in the patients with stroke. The prevalence of post-stroke cognitive impairment ranges from 20% to 80%, which varies for the difference between the countries, the races, and the diagnostic criteria. The risk of post-stroke cognitive impairment is related to both the demographic factors like age, education and occupation and vascular factors. Th...

dementia is a syndrome encompassing many intellectual domains that can be broadly defined as an overall decline in intellectual function including difficulties with language, simple calculations, planning and judgment and motor skills as well as loss of memory. a genetic cause is identified in only a minority of patients, but patients and their family members are frequently concerned about the ...

Introduction: The results of clinical studies about the severity of post stoke dementia patients are limited in Korea. We investigate clinical factors related to severity of dementia and to inspect the clinical factors related to the progression of dementia severity. Methods: The patients who visited the hospital by first time between March 2010 and September 2012, among the patients with post ...