ABSTRACT
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, Geriatric Research Education
and Clinical Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
INTRODUCTION
Vascular dementia (VaD) due to cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and ischemic
brain injury from cardiovascular disease is the most common of the secondary
dementias. Cognitive changes occurring after a stroke have been described
since the seventeenth century (1).
