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What Does Bilateral Deep White Matter Changes Indicate?

hi i am 59 and i was attackt 5 weeks ago and ended up in hospital i was head btted 6or 7 time and punched around the head i had lots of cuts and lumps on my head my blood presure whet upto 245/144 they gave me a ct scan and kept me in when left the next day they gave me a discharge letter saying that i had bilateral deep white matter changes i have since had a mri and i am waiting for rusults what dose deep white matter changes mean
Thu, 17 Jul 2014
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nobody really knows what it is or why it happens. it is thought to be damage to tiny bridging blood vessels between large vessel territories by ischemia or lack of blood flow because it is most
severe in people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. it is known to be the cause of what was previously called vascular dementia but only in its severest form. most of the time it is an asymptomatic finding seen on MRI .
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What Does Bilateral Deep White Matter Changes Indicate?

nobody really knows what it is or why it happens. it is thought to be damage to tiny bridging blood vessels between large vessel territories by ischemia or lack of blood flow because it is most severe in people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. it is known to be the cause of what was previously called vascular dementia but only in its severest form. most of the time it is an asymptomatic finding seen on MRI .