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Vascular dementia todayG C Roman
Dept Medicine Neurology, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284 7883, USA
Rev Neurol (Paris) 155:S64-72. 1999..These findings offer hope for prevention of this growing public health problem...- Brain hypoperfusion: a critical factor in vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
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, USA
Neurol Res 26:454-8. 2004..Recognition of the susceptibility of elderly subjects to cerebral lesions induced by hypoperfusion should result in appropriate preventive measures and better treatment... - Facts, myths, and controversies in vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital San Antonio, TX 78232, USA
J Neurol Sci 226:49-52. 2004.... - Vascular cognitive disorder: a new diagnostic category updating vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Texas HSC at San Antonio and the Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital, Mail Code 7883, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
J Neurol Sci 226:81-7. 2004..It would include specific disease entities such as post-stroke VCI, post-stroke VaD, CADASIL, Binswanger disease, and AD plus CVD. This category explicitly excludes isolated cognitive dysfunctions such as those mentioned above... - Cholinergic dysfunction in vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital, San Antonio, TX 78232, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 7:18-26. 2005..Cholinergic stimulation produces increases in cortical cerebral blood flow that may be relevant to the therapeutic effect of ChEIs... - Vascular dementia. Advances in nosology, diagnosis, treatment and preventionG C Roman
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Panminerva Med 46:207-15. 2004..Evidence strongly suggests that control of vascular risk factors, in particular hypertension, could prevent VaD... - Rivastigmine for subcortical vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7883, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Expert Rev Neurother 5:309-13. 2005..Rivastigmine appears to be a promising agent in vascular dementia but its effects remain to be established in double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials... - Vascular dementia: a historical backgroundGustavo Roman
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229 3900, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 15:11-3. 2003..In the 1960s, the seminal neuropathological and clinical studies of the New Castle school in England inaugurated the modern era of vascular dementia... - Vascular dementia prevention: a risk factor analysisGustavo C Roman
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex 78229 3900, USA
Cerebrovasc Dis 20:91-100. 2005..Evidence from controlled clinical trials strongly suggests that control of vascular risk factors, in particular hypertension, could prevent the development of dementia... - A diagnostic dilemma: is "Alzheimer's dementia" Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, or both?Gustavo C Roman
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Audie L Murphy Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Lancet Neurol 3:141. 2004 - Donepezil: a clinical review of current and emerging indicationsGustavo C Roman
Medicine Neurology, Mail Code 7883, University of Texas HSC, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Expert Opin Pharmacother 5:161-80. 2004.... - Subcortical ischaemic vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
University of Texas at San Antonio and the Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas 78284 7883, USA
Lancet Neurol 1:426-36. 2002..Treatment is symptomatic and prevention requires control of treatable risk factors... - A proposal to declare neurocysticercosis an international reportable diseaseG Roman
World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Tropical Neurology, University of Texas at San Antonio 78246, USA
Bull World Health Organ 78:399-406. 2000..Compulsory notification also has the major advantage of providing accurate quantification of the incidence and prevalence of neurocysticercosis at regional level, thus permitting the rational use of resources in eradication campaigns... - On the history of lacunes, etat criblé, and the white matter lesions of vascular dementiaGustavo C Roman
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Tex 78229, USA
Cerebrovasc Dis 13:1-6. 2002..Also in 1894, Binswanger described the disease that now bears his name. In 1901, Pierre Marie coined the name état lacunaire (lacunar state) for the clinical syndrome of elderly patients with multiple lacunes... - Vascular dementia revisited: diagnosis, pathogenesis, treatment, and preventionGustavo C Roman
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284 7883, USA
Med Clin North Am 86:477-99. 2002..Anticholinergic medications used for AD are also useful in VaD, and atypical antipsychotic agents and antidepressants (e.g., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) may be required in some patients... - Vascular dementia may be the most common form of dementia in the elderlyGustavo C Roman
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78284 6200, USA
J Neurol Sci 203:7-10. 2002..In conclusion, VaD may be the most underdiagnosed and undertreated form of dementia in the elderly... - [Neurocysticercosis: a public health perspective]G C Roman
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
Rev Neurol 36:71-4. 2003..In countries where cysticercosis is endemic, the prevalence of epilepsy is twice as high as that observed in areas that are free of this parasitic disease... - Vascular dementia: distinguishing characteristics, treatment, and preventionGustavo C Roman
Department of Medicine, University of Texas, UTHSCSA Medical School, Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio 78229, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:S296-304. 2003..Prevention strategies should focus on reduction of stroke and cardiovascular disease, with attention to control of risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, and hyperhomocysteinemia... - Autism: transient in utero hypothyroxinemia related to maternal flavonoid ingestion during pregnancy and to other environmental antithyroid agentsGustavo C Roman
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Neurol Sci 262:15-26. 2007..Additional multidisciplinary epidemiological studies will be required to confirm this environmental hypothesis of autism... - Defining dementia: clinical criteria for the diagnosis of vascular dementiaG C Roman
Medicine Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Acta Neurol Scand Suppl 178:6-9. 2002.... - Frontal MRI findings associated with impairment on the Executive Interview (EXIT25)D R Royall
Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Pharmacology, South Texas Veterans Health System, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center GRECC, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Exp Aging Res 27:293-308. 2001..This conclusion is consistent with earlier functional neuroimaging studies associating EXIT25 performance with left mesiofrontal perfusion...