Multiinfarct dementia

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dementia, due to significant cerebrovascular disease, with a stepwise deteriorating course and a 'patchy' distribution of neurologic deficits.

Multiinfarct-dementia is now restricted to a syndrome of vascular dementia due to several large vessels strokes.
Multiinfarct dementia is the second most common form of dementia in the elderly.
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Vascular dementia is an overarching superordinate category of which multiinfarct dementia is only one subtype.
It is demonstrated that patients with senile dementia Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and alcohol related brain damage (AD) show a significant increase in ratio se-Cu/se-Zn when compared with patients with multiinfarct dementia (MID) and when compared with a matched control group.
Review Summary: We have studied 120 subjects affected by subcortical vascular dementia (group A) and 120 subjects suffering from multiinfarct dementia (group B) for 24 months.
Peripheral inflammatory response in Alzheimer's disease and multiinfarct dementia.
Primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type and multiinfarct dementia exhibit differences in cerebrovascular blood flow velocity profiles, which were investigated by transcranial Doppler sonography.

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