Cerebral small-vessel disease: An update review / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cerebral small-vessel disease(CSVD)is a major cause of cognitive decline, dementia, affective disorders, urinary dysfunction and functional disability in the elderly.This review will focus and elaborates on the pathogenic classification, pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment and propose the prospect in the future study, in order to raise the importance of CSVD and provide a certain theoretical basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment.