Number
- Most common causes of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, causing around 15% of cases.
Clinical features
- History of multiple strokes
Management
- Management of stroke risk factors is the primary option
Multiple subtypes of vascular dementia depending on profile of ischemia
- Multi-infarct (cortical) dementia
- Small vessel (subcortical white matter) dementia
- Hypoperfusion dementia (watershed infarcts)
- Hemorrhagic dementia
- CADASIL
- Mixed vascular-Alzheimer’s disease type.
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