Small Concomitant Vascular Lesions Do Not Influence Rates of Cognitive Decline in Patients With Alzheimer Disease

To determine the relation between concomitant small cerebral infarction and clinical progression of Alzheimer disease (AD).A retrospective clinicopathologic study of patients with AD.We searched the databases of the University of California, San Diego, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, La Jolla, for patients with an autopsy diagnosis of definite AD with or without a concomitant small cerebral infarction. Clinical and neuropsychologic data...