Senile Dementia of alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia investigated by transcranial doppler sonography

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-46

  Sattel, H ^a   Forstl, H ^a   Biedert, S ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Neurologische Abteilung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi infarct dementia; Pulsatility index; Senile dementia of Alzheimer type; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENILE DEMENTIA; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0030065897     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106851     Document Type: Article

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