Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation.
The relationship between cardiovascular disease and cerebral infarction was analysed in a prospectively assessed post mortem series of 48 demented patients. Hypertension was rare in this group of patients whose mean age was 82.7 y. Atrial fibrillation was the most important underlying cardiac abnorm...
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1985
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| description | The relationship between cardiovascular disease and cerebral infarction was analysed in a prospectively assessed post mortem series of 48 demented patients. Hypertension was rare in this group of patients whose mean age was 82.7 y. Atrial fibrillation was the most important underlying cardiac abnormality. It is suggested that atrial fibrillation is more important than hypertension in the aetiology of cerebral infarction in the very aged and that this may be relevant to the pathogenesis of cerebrovascular dementia. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f596a367-0df0-4835-81e8-ff8c04d03bca2022-03-27T12:28:16ZCerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f596a367-0df0-4835-81e8-ff8c04d03bcaEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordBMJ Publishing Group1985Ratcliffe, PWilcock, GThe relationship between cardiovascular disease and cerebral infarction was analysed in a prospectively assessed post mortem series of 48 demented patients. Hypertension was rare in this group of patients whose mean age was 82.7 y. Atrial fibrillation was the most important underlying cardiac abnormality. It is suggested that atrial fibrillation is more important than hypertension in the aetiology of cerebral infarction in the very aged and that this may be relevant to the pathogenesis of cerebrovascular dementia. |
| spellingShingle | Ratcliffe, P Wilcock, G Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title | Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title_full | Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title_fullStr | Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title_short | Cerebrovascular disease in dementia: the importance of atrial fibrillation. |
| title_sort | cerebrovascular disease in dementia the importance of atrial fibrillation |
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