Clinico-radiological predictors of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) in patients with stroke: A prospective observational study

Conclusion: Post-stroke cognitive impairment is frequent and is associated with poor functional outcome. Predictors like lower educational status, strategic site lesion, greater severity of age related white matter changes and baseline stroke severity independently contributed to the risk of developing VCI in stroke patients.Highlights:

Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - March 31, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Tejendra Sukdeo Chaudhari, Rajesh Verma, Ravindra Kumar Garg, Manish Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Praveen kumar Sharma Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research