Vascular Dementias

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Vascular Dementias

• Multi infarct dementias
• lacunar infarcts
• deep white matter ischaemia (Binswanger's)

Pathology

• Micro infarcts
• cystic necrosis of infarcted areas
• reactive gliosis
• patches of demyelination of white matter

Risk factors

• old age
• family history
• male sex
• geography and race
• hypertension
• smoking
• diabetes
• cardiac arrhythmia

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