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Poststroke Dementia

The Role of Strategic Infarcts

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Poststroke dementia is a syndrome characterized by the acute onset of deficits in multiple cognitive domains, often including memory, after a clinical stroke, in a patient with nonrecognizable prestroke cognitive impairment. The interaction of various factors is necessary to produce its symptoms, and different clinical-pathologic correlates may lead to this diagnosis. At least two different mechanisms are responsible for poststroke dementia: strategic infarcts and mixed dementia resulting from the association with Alzheimer’s pathology.

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    Anelyssa D′Abreu MD & Brian R. Ott MD

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D′Abreu, A., Ott, B.R. (2005). Poststroke Dementia. In: Paul, R.H., Cohen, R., Ott, B.R., Salloway, S. (eds) Vascular Dementia. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-824-2:231

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