Table
2: Pathogenesis of
vascular cognitive impairment/vascular dementia.
Circulation
disorders causes:
Tissue
lesions
|
Multifocal |
Focal |
Systemic disease
|
Multiple lacunes, infarcts, borderline infarcts,
cortical granular atrophy, combined cortico-subcortical lesions |
Strategic networks (thalamus, caudate, hippocampus,
angular, cingulate gyri) |
|
Hypoperfusion (instable artery pressure) |
White matter lesions (leukoaraiosis, Binswanger) |
Periventricular white matter lesions |
|
Hemorrhagic |
Multiple small or large hemorrhages |
Focal bleeds |