A client was diagnosed 3 years ago with a cognitive impairment, a condition that worsened over the next several months and which culminated in his recent death
An autopsy revealed numerous infarcted brain regions resulting from vessel occlusions. This client most likely suffered from which type of dementia?
A) Alzheimer disease
B) Vascular dementia
C) Lewy body dementia
D) Frontotemporal degeneration
Ans: B
While the four major types of dementia are not discrete or mutually exclusive, vascular dementia is characterized by pathophysiologic processes including infarctions from occlusion of blood vessels. This pathophysiology is not characteristic of Alzheimer disease, Lewy body dementia, or frontotemporal lobe dementia.
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