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   Vascular Dementia - Its Nature, Symptom, and Treatment   
      
   Another name given to vascular dementia is multi-infarct dementia. The   
   disorder is characterized by destruction of brain tissues as a result of a   
   brain stroke, that is either:   
      
   A few massive brain strokes or   
   Several number of small brain strokes combined   
   Among other common facts related to vascular dementia or multi-infarct   
   dementia include:   
      
   A  number of successive brain strokes mainly result in vascular or   
   multi-infarct dementia     
   Such distinct types of brain strokes tend to commonly occur in men and it   
   often develops in people who are at or above the age of 70   
   Among the commonly recognized risk factors for developing vascular dementia   
   are included:   
   Hypertension or high blood pressure and   
   Diabetes   
   Both these disorders tend to cause vaascular or multi-infarct dementia for   
   they primarily affect or damage blood vessels of the brain. In addition,   
   vascular dementia is also much more likely to develop in people who either   
   have smoked in the past or are    
   smoking.   
      
   Brain strokes that result in development o multi-infarct or vascular dementia   
   tend to:   
      
   Partially or completely destroy brain tissues through blocking the blood   
   supply reaching the brain   
   Areas of the brain that commonly gets to be destroyed due to such brain   
   strokes are called infarcts   
   Relatively minor brain strokes cause very little or no immediate muscle   
   weakness and   
   Such minor brain strokes are much less likely to cause paralysis as that   
   commonly results as a consequence of massive brain strokes   
      
   Among the striking differences between dementia resulting from Alzheimer's   
   disease and multi-infarct or vascular dementia are:   
      
   The latter may progress in clearly distinct stages or steps     
   Symptoms and conditions of vascular dementia tend to worsen suddenly only to   
   show little improvements at latter times, often followed with worsening   
   effects a few months or years later as a consequence of another brain stroke   
   In addition, vascular or multi-infarct dementia can also show such visible   
   symptoms that commonly possess close similarities with other dementias, which   
   commonly may include:   
      
   Memory loss   
   Increasing difficulty in accomplishing simple tasks and   
   Increasing tendency of the affected person to wander off   
   Although such is the case, most people affected with vascular or multi-infarct   
   dementia are less likely to suffer from changes in their:   
      
   Judgement and   
   Personality   
   As is well understood and known, such changes are much more likely to occur in   
   people affected with Alzheimer's disease. In addition, common symptoms of   
   vascular or multi-infarct dementia may also cause wide variations in observed   
   symptoms. Such specific    
   and wide-ranging changes brought about by vascular dementia tend to depend   
   entirely on specific area of the brain that is destroyed or is affected.     
      
   Since it is much more likely that brain strokes tend to affect or destroy only   
   a small area of brain tissues contained in only small area of the brian,   
   impairment of few specific aspects of mental function do not occur.     
      
   Few simple and seeingly slight symptoms neurologic symptoms that result from   
   tiny or small brain strokes can help doctors identify vascular or   
   multi-infarct dementia. Among common symptoms of vascular or multi-infarct   
   dementia are included:   
      
   Partial loss of vision   
   Slow and slurred speech   
   Muscle weakness   
   Paralysis in one leg and   
   Increasing inability and difficulty in walking   
   Specific treatment options and measures that are used to deal with vascular or   
   multi-infarct dementia are mostly the same as those used in treatment of all   
   kinds of dementia. Rate of advance in vascular or multi-infarct dementia can   
   be forced to slow    
   down or even stop and sometimes the whoel condition can be prevented through   
   treating disorders such as:   
      
   Diabetes and   
   Hypertension or abnormally high blood pressure   
   In addition, people should be adviced to quit smoking, either to treat or   
   prevent vascular or multi-infarct dementia.   
      
   There are no specific treatment regimens available for positively dealing with   
   vascular or multi-infarct dementia, although anticoagulant drugs are commonly   
   provided in few people who have had a brain stroke to prevent successive and   
   further brain    
   strokes.   
      
   In order to prevent successive brain strokes from occurring as a result of   
   blood clot formation due to arrhythmia or abnormal heart rhythm, a common   
   anticoagulant called warfarin is often used. On the other hand, people who had   
   experienced several    
   strokes as a consequence of constriction of blood vessels that supply the   
   heart with blood can take aspirin to deal with their condition.   
      
      
      
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