title: [Multi-infarct dementia--a disputed disease].
abstract: Isolated multiinfarction dementia is rare among general hospital demented patients who died and were subjected to necropsy (7.8%, i. e. 9 observations from 115 clinically and pathologically diagnosed syndromes of dementia during a period of more than four years). It is more frequently combined with Alzheimer' disease (18.3% of the same group). The development of multiinfarction dementia is suggested by cerebrovascular or cardiovascular disease in the case-history, similarly as hypertension, a varying course, focal neurological symptoms incl. impaired speech, gait and swallowing, a positive Hachinski score. Multiinfarction dementia and Binswanger's disease may be variants of the same process.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Koukolík
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D015161:Dementia, Multi-Infarct / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Multiinfarktová demence--diskutované onemocnĕní.