Post-stroke dementia – a comprehensive review

BMC Medicine - Tập 15 Số 1 - 2017
Milija Mijajlović1, Aleksandra M. Pavlović1, Michael Brainin2, Wolf Dieter Heiss3, Terence J Quinn4, Hege Ihle‐Hansen5, Dirk M. Hermann6, Einor Ben Assayag7, Edo Richard8, Alexander Thiel9, Efrat Kliper7, Yong Il Shin10, Yun Hee Kim11, Seong Hye Choi12, San Jung13, Yeong-Bae Lee14, Osman Sinanović15, Deborah A. Levine16, Ilana Schlesinger17, Gillian Mead18, Vuk Milošević19, Didier Leys20, Guri Hagberg5, Marie Helene Ursin5, Yvonne Teuschl2, С. В. Прокопенко21, E. Yu. Mozheyko21, Anna Farrell21, Karl Matz2, Vuk Aleksić22, Dafin F. Mureșanu23, Amos D. Korczyn24, Natan M. Bornstein25
1Neurology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Dr Subotica 6, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
2Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
3Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research Cologne, Germany
4Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
5Department of internal medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål and Department of Medical Research, Bærum Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Bærum, Norway
6Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
7Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sorasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
8Department of Neurology, Radboud university medical center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
9Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University at SMBD Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Québec, Canada
10Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea
11Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Prevention and Rehabilitation, Heart Vascular and Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
12Department of Neurology, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea
13Hallym University Medical Center, Kang Nam Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
14Department of Neurology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, South Korea
15Department of Neurology, University Clinical Center Tuzla, School of Medicine University of Tuzla, 75000, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
16Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
17Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
18Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
19Clinic of Neurology, Clinical Center Nis, Nis, Serbia
20U1171-Department of Neurology, University of Lille, Inserm, Faculty of Medicine, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France
21Department of Neurology and Medical Rehabilitation, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
22Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Hospital CenterZemun, Belgrade, Serbia
23Department of Clinical Neurosciences, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine, Clij-Napoca, Romania
24Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel
25Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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