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what is dementia - ANSWER - neurological syndrome characterized by progressive deterioration in intellectual functions, judgment, thinking, visuospatial skills, constructional abilities, language, memory, emotions, and behavior. A diagnosis usually requires the presence of at least three.
vascular dementia - ANSWER - form of dementia caused by a stroke or other restriction of the flow of blood to the brain
risk factors for vascular dementia - ANSWER - age genetics
cardio. diseases (ATN, atherosclerosis) recurrent strokes diabetes mellitus smoking/drinking/no exercising
pathogenesis of vascular dementia - ANSWER - damage to a part of the brain Hemorrhagic: Diseased or weakened blood vessel can rupture and bleed into the brain
Ischemic: Narrowed or blocked blood vessel can impede blood flow or systemic
hypoperfusion
neurocognitive domains - ANSWER - - Complex attention
- Executive functioning
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- Language
- Perceptual-motor
- Social cognition
nonspecific immune response - ANSWER - includes skin, passages lined with cilia, macrophages, inflammatory response, and interferons (proteins that help prevent the spread of a virus)
automatic immunity - ANSWER - inflammation, swelling, redness
what can cause an inflammatory response - ANSWER - cell injury, invasion of bacteria, virus, sickness
acute inflammatory response - ANSWER - the body's initial reaction to tissue damage, bringing blood to the site of injury or infection local manifestations, vascular phase, cellular phase
local manifestations of inflammation - ANSWER - following tissue injury, inflammatory mediators (histamine) are released by injured tissue cells and mast cells
vascular phase of inflammation - ANSWER - in response to inflammatory mediators:
- vasodilation of small blood vessels around the injury site to increase blood flow
- increased permeability dt retraction of endothelial cells
exudate exit the blood vessels and enter the injured site
exudate - ANSWER - fluid containing leukocytes, proteins, inflame. mediators, and plasma that leaks from the blood vessels out of the injury site dt increase permeability.Exudate moving to extracellular space is the cause of edema
what body systems does mobility involve - ANSWER - skeletal, muscular, nervous
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