Great explanation, @Cynthia12.
Both of my parents had vascular dementia, caused by multi mini infarcts. The doctor told me that my mother's last CT of her brain looked like a Swiss cheese from all of the little strokes she had. On top of that she had advanced cardiomyopathy from CHF/non insulin dependent diabetes, atherosclerosis, the list was impressive. What was weird was that my dad had no high cholesterol, no high blood pressure, nothing that was a precursor to the multi infarct dementia that he had although he did have paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia which was what killed him ultimately so I have no idea what caused him to develop the multi infarct dementia.
It's a complicated thing with no clear cut answers.
I did take care of one patient with alcoholic dementia and several with Huntington's. We lost a friend who had Parkinson's dementia when he died from an accidental fall. It's really scary how many different forms of memory diseases there are out there and I have a feeling the list is only going to get longer.
Both of my parents had vascular dementia, caused by multi mini infarcts. The doctor told me that my mother's last CT of her brain looked like a Swiss cheese from all of the little strokes she had. On top of that she had advanced cardiomyopathy from CHF/non insulin dependent diabetes, atherosclerosis, the list was impressive. What was weird was that my dad had no high cholesterol, no high blood pressure, nothing that was a precursor to the multi infarct dementia that he had although he did have paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia which was what killed him ultimately so I have no idea what caused him to develop the multi infarct dementia.
It's a complicated thing with no clear cut answers.
I did take care of one patient with alcoholic dementia and several with Huntington's. We lost a friend who had Parkinson's dementia when he died from an accidental fall. It's really scary how many different forms of memory diseases there are out there and I have a feeling the list is only going to get longer.
