Mild cognitive impairment in stroke patients with ischemic cerebral small-vessel disease: A forerunner of vascular dementia?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1201-1217

  Grau Olivares, Marta ^a   Arboix, Adrià ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebral microbleeds; Lacunar infarct; MRI; Neuropsychology; Small vessel disease; Vascular cognitive impairment; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 70349306869     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.09.73     Document Type: Review

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