Binswanger disease is a form of?: (A) Hypertensive retinopathy, (B) Hypertensive nephropathy, (C) Hypertensive encephalopathy, (D) subcortical leukoencephalopathy
Answer is D. Ans. (d) Subcortical leukoencephalopathy(Ref: International Neurology textbook pg 12)Binswanger's disease (also known as subcortical leukoencephalopathy), also called subcortical vascular dementia, is a type of dementia caused by widespread, microscopic areas of damage to the deep layers of white matter in the brain Hypertension and old age are risk factors.