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What Causes Dizziness And Mild Chronic Microvascular Ischemia?
My mother is 67 year old woman who just recently have a CT of her brain. The impression is mild parenchymal volume loss consistant wit mild chronic microvascular ischemia. She does have diagnoses of controlled HTN and hyper cholestelol. The reason for the CT scan was dizziness, and ive also noticed some memory loss. Is this something I could be concerned about?
Tue, 26 May 2015
Mild parenchymal volume loss can cause dementia. It looks that she has some small vessel disease or ischemia which causes neuronal deficit and eventually memory problem. She should have a carotid ultrasound to evaluate circulation to the brain/
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