Latent cerebral artery stenoses on magnetic resonance angiography in a patient diagnosed as probable Alzheimer disease
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- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 52 (1) , 93-96
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb00979.x
Abstract
A 65-year-old woman with hypertension developed slowly progressive memory disturbance and disorientation. She was diagnosed as having Alzheimer-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 tomography showed bilateral middle cerebral artery stenoses and middle cerebral artery watershed dominant hypoperfusion. It is postulated that the patient's cognitive disturbance may have originated from vascular lesions.Keywords
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