title: Binswanger's disease: a cause of dementia in the elderly.
abstract: Evaluation of dementia has expanded as our attention to the aged and their maladies has increased. Alzheimer's disease continues to occupy the number one position as a cause of dementia, but vascular dementia also assumes great importance as one of the preventable causes of mental deterioration. Binswanger's disease, a type of vascular or multi-infarct dementia, will be seen more as our diagnostic technologies improve. An appropriate clinical picture combined with normal laboratory values and a CT brain scan with white matter lucencies and frequent basal ganglia infarcts confirm the diagnosis of Binswanger's. Treatment is symptomatic, with prevention of further infarcts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rousseau
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D002537:Intracranial Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male