Greater frequency of subcortical lesions in severely demented patients with early onset Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's & Dementia - Tập 3 - Trang 54-57 - 2007
Anita Malgorzata Geppert1, Katarzyna Anna Wroblewska2, Elzbieta Maria Przedpelska-Ober1
1Department of Neurology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
2Department of Radiology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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BackgroundRecent data have shown that in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular brain lesions might promote the progression of cognitive decline or might even precede neuronal damage.MethodsIschemic brain lesions, recognized on computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, were analyzed retrospectively in 72 patients with early and late onset sporadic AD.ResultsAll types of ischemic lesions occurred more frequently in the AD patients than in the controls. Analysis of subgroups of early and late onset AD patients diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging showed a more frequent occurrence of subcoritcal lesions in severely demented patients with early onset AD.ConclusionsThe non‐stroke subcortical ischemic lesions occurring more frequently in our AD patients might be recognized as the concomitant vascular pathology that characterizes severely demented patients with early onset sporadic AD.

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