Binswanger disease

Binswanger disease is a form of small vessel vascular dementia caused by damage to the white brain matter.

Binswanger disease is best when diagnosed of a team by experts including a neurologist and psychiatrist to rule out other psychological or neurological problems.

Leukoaraiosis (LA) refers to the imaging finding of white matter changes that are common in Binswanger disease.

Even with these errors, Olszewski concluded that Binswanger disease did exist as a subset of cerebral arteriosclerosis.

Patients often recover well, but if there is enough white matter disease from lacunar pathology, one can see a subcortical dementia such as Binswanger disease.

In 1894 he described a condition he called "encephalitis subcorticalis chronica progressiva", which would later go by the name of "Binswanger disease".

These lesions are concentrated around the basal ganglia, periventricular white matter, and the pons, and are similar to those seen in Binswanger disease.

Such cerebral microbleeds are important, since they often occur prior to ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage, Binswanger disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Because of this information, white matter changes indicated by an MRI or CT cannot alone diagnose Binswanger disease, but can aid to a bigger picture in the diagnosis process.