LATENT CEREBRAL-ARTERY STENOSES ON MAGNETIC-RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN A PATIENT DIAGNOSED AS PROBABLE ALZHEIMER-DISEASE

Authors
ISHIBASHI KI TANAKA K NAKABAYASHI T NAKAMURA M UCHIYAMA M OKAWA M
Citation
Ki. Ishibashi et al., LATENT CEREBRAL-ARTERY STENOSES ON MAGNETIC-RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN A PATIENT DIAGNOSED AS PROBABLE ALZHEIMER-DISEASE, PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES, 52(1), 1998, pp. 93-96
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology",Neurosciences,Psychiatry
Journal title
PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES → ACNP
ISSN journal
13231316
Volume
52
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
93 - 96
Database
ISI
SICI code
1323-1316(1998)52:1<93:LCSOMA>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A 65-year-old woman with hypertension developed slowly progressive mem ory disturbance and disorientation. She was diagnosed as having Alzhei mer-type dementia according to clinical criteria. Later her cognitive deterioration was noted to fluctuate in parallel to her blood pressure . Magnetic resonance angiography and single photon emission computed t omography showed bilateral middle cerebral artery stenoses and middle cerebral artery watershed dominant hypoperfusion. It is postulated tha t the patient's cognitive disturbance may have originated from vascula r lesions.