BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neuropsychological changes that precede a diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) and the differences between preclinical VCI and Alzheimer disease (AD) are not well understood. We compared the neuropsychological performances of people with incident VCI, incident AD, and no cognitive impairment (NCI) 5 years before their clinical diagnoses. METHODS The Canadian...

Drought is a complex hazard, and it has an impact on agricultural, ecological, and socio-economic systems. The vegetation condition index (VCI), which is derived from remote-sensing data, has been widely used for drought monitoring. However, VCI based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) does not perform well in certain circumstances. In this study, we examined the utility of th...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW It is estimated that one in three people will experience a stroke, dementia, or both during their lifetime. The goal of this article is to assist clinicians in the identification and treatment of patients with vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). To that end, we will discuss the scope and definition of VCI; how this definition can be applied in clinical practice; VCI epidemiol...

BACKGROUND Neuropsychiatric profile has less been well recognized in all subtypes of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). The aim of this study is to explore the neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with different subtypes of VCI. METHODS A consecutive series of 157 patients with VCI visited the dementia clinic in a regional hospital in mid-Taiwan were investigated in this study. All p...

BACKGROUND Around two thirds stroke patients may suffer from vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). Our previous study has validated the NINDS-CSN harmonization standard for VCI diagnosis in Chinese. In this study, we aimed to investigate the predictors for VCI in Chinese post-stroke patients. METHODS We compared epidemiological, clinical, and neuroimaging data (number, size and location of acu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The role of clinical factors, cerebral infarcts and hippocampal damage in vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) subtypes remains unclear. METHODS Non-demented patients with carotid stenosis and recent transient ischemic attack/stroke had cognitive assessment and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Amnestic VCI was defined as memory impairment; non-amnestic VCI was any...

BACKGROUND People with vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) constitute a clinically heterogeneous group, but previous symptomatic drug trials in VCI did not take this clinical heterogeneity into account. Executive dysfunction and memory impairment are the cognitive domains that are most frequently impaired in VCI, and these impairments are likely to reflect vascular damage to specific neurotrans...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to report the detailed surgical techniques of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS). METHODS Demographic and surgical techniques characteristics of 39 patients with BCS who underwent LDLT were retrospectively reviewed. Thirty-two of them had native vena cava inferior (VCI) preservation and 6 had retrohepatic V...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to find the best 3D reconstruction technique to visualize the endometrial-myometrial junction (EMJ). METHODS Retrospective observational study on 240 stored 3D volumes of 80 patients. The first author reconstructed the 2D midcoronal image without volume contrast imaging (VCI), with VCI set at 4 mm and with VCI set at 2 mm. Three images per patient (240 ima...

As invited editors, we are honored to present this Dementia e Neuropsychologia edition which focuses on Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI). VCI is an extremely important concept in geriatric and neurologic care. In a broad sense, VCI refers to cognitive deficits associated with vascular disease. It is well known that vascular disease is the second-most-common cause of dementia, after Alzheimer...