Risk and determinants of dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment and brain subcortical vascular changes : a study of clinical, neuroimaging, and biological MarkersThe VMCI-Tuscany Study : rationale, design, and methodology
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2012
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Risk and determinants of dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment and brain subcortical vascular changes : a study of clinical, neuroimaging, and biological MarkersThe VMCI-Tuscany Study : rationale, design, and methodology / A. Poggesi, E. Salvadori, L. Pantoni, G. Pracucci, F. Cesari, A. Chiti, L. Ciolli, M. Cosottini, A. Del Bene, N. De Stefano, S. Diciotti, M.T. Dotti, A. Ginestroni, B. Giusti, A.M. Gori, S. Nannucci, G. Orlandi, F. Pescini, R. Valenti, R. Abbate, A. Federico, M. Mascalchi, L. Murri, D. Inzitari. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. - ISSN 2090-0252. - 2012:(2012), pp. 608013.1-608013.7. [10.1155/2012/608013]
Abstract:
Dementia is one of the most disabling conditions. Alzheimers disease and vascular dementia (VaD) are the most frequent causes. Subcortical VaD is consequent to deep-brain small vessel disease (SVD) and is the most frequent form of VaD. Its pathological hallmarks are ischemic white matter changes and lacunar infarcts. Degenerative and vascular changes often coexist, but mechanisms of interaction are incompletely understood. The term mild cognitive impairment defines a transitional state between normal ageing and dementia. Pre-dementia stages of VaD are also acknowledged (vascular mild cognitive impairment, VMCI). Progression relates mostly to the subcortical VaD type, but determinants of such transition are unknown. Variability of phenotypic expression is not fully explained by severity grade of lesions, as depicted by conventional MRI that is not sensitive to microstructural and metabolic alterations. Advanced neuroimaging techniques seem able to achieve this. Beside hypoperfusion, blood-brain-barrier dysfunction has been also demonstrated in subcortical VaD. The aim of the Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment Tuscany Study is to expand knowledge about determinants of transition from mild cognitive impairment to dementia in patients with cerebral SVD. This paper summarizes the main aims and methodological aspects of this multicenter, ongoing, observational study enrolling patients affected by VMCI with SVD.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Aging; Neurology; Neurology (clinical); Cognitive Neuroscience; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; Behavioral Neuroscience
Elenco autori:
A. Poggesi, E. Salvadori, L. Pantoni, G. Pracucci, F. Cesari, A. Chiti, L. Ciolli, M. Cosottini, A. Del Bene, N. De Stefano, S. Diciotti, M.T. Dotti, A. Ginestroni, B. Giusti, A.M. Gori, S. Nannucci, G. Orlandi, F. Pescini, R. Valenti, R. Abbate, A. Federico, M. Mascalchi, L. Murri, D. Inzitari
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