Deterioration of vascular dementia caused by recurrent multiple small emboli from thoracic aortic atheroma

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 607-611

  Takahashi, Kazuo ^a   Iijima, Kenichi ^a   Nagasaki, Makoto ^a   Torii, Ikuko ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a   Kobayashi, Shotai ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic atheroma; Cerebral infarction; DWI; Multiple emboli; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CILOSTAZOL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; OZAGREL;

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 4444312515     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.607     Document Type: Article

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