A study on memory impairment in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular diseases / 第三军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the characteristics of memory impairment in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular diseases(ICVD)for further understanding in the cognitive impairment at early stage.Methods Forty-six ICVD patients aged 49 to 80 years old and forty-six matched volunteers,all from the same hospital during Sep 2005 to Feb 2006,were enrolled.Mini-mental state examination(MMSE),clinical memory scale(CMS),Fuld object-memory evaluation(FOM)and rapid verbal retrieve(RVR)were used to evaluate the cognitive and memory function.Results The ICVD patients had lower scores in every memory function than the controls(P