This part of the body is called the pelvic area. Structures inside and near the pelvis include the bladder, prostate and other male reproductive organs, female reproductive organs, lymph nodes, and pelvic bones. An MRI does not use radiation. Single MRI images are called slices.
The type of dementia caused by small strokes, vascular dementia, is also sometimes referred to as âsmall vessel diseaseâ or multi-infarct dementia because it is caused by small strokes (infarcts) caused by blood clots in the small blood vessels of the brain.
1 Two main causes of stroke are clotting in an artery that supplies blood to the brain (ischemic stroke), and bleeding into the brain tissue, often from a defect in a blood vessel in the brain (hemorrhagic stroke); mini strokes (TIA's) are usually temporary ischemic strokes that quickly resolve.