ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE ON MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF 100 PATIENTS ABOVE 60 YEAR OLD

Hoang Minh Loi 1, Tran Ngoc Trinh Nguyen, Hung Phung
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Purpose: To study the association between cognitive impairment and dementia and brain damage on magnetic resonance imaging.


Retrospective and Prospective study: A cross-sectional descriptive study with 100 patients above 60 years, made MMSE test brain MRI at Quang Tri Provincial General Hospital since 1/2021-10/2021.


Results: In 100 studied patients, tested by MMSE, 38% had normal cognitive status, 51% had mild cognitive impairment, and 11% had dementia. Cognitive decline is associtated age but not sex. Cognitive impairment and dementia associated with global brain atrophy, medial temporal cephalic atrophy, frontal lobe atrophy, parietal lobe atrophy, and occipital lobe atrophy but not white matter hyperintensities (small vessel disease) and lacunar infarction. The higher the GCA (global corticol atrophy scale), the higher the MTA (mesial tempora atrophy rscale), the more severe the cognitive impairment.


Conclusion: Magnetic resonance imaging is strongly important role for diagonosis cognitive decline and dementia, with features such as total cerebral atrophy, medial temporal brain atrophy, parietal lobe atrophy, frontal lobe atrophy, and occipital lobes atrophy are all involved in the patient's cognitive status, and the assessment of these features on magnetic resonance imaging help to the early diagnosis and prediction of future dementia.

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