What is ischemic leukoencephalopathy?

Not a neurologist...: "Ischemic" refers to decreased blood flow to an area. "Encephalopathy" refers to disease or abnormality in the brain. "Leuko" means white. This term is usually applicable to a brain imaging scan, like a CT or MRI. They are seeing white areas in the brain that reflect brain disease due to lack of blood flow. I hope our experts will add their views here!

A term: .. broadly used to indicate loss of neural white matter in the brain. Can be secondary to toxin exposure, infection, loss of normal oxygen delivery etc. and can be associated with localized or generalized slowing of central nervous system functional efficiency.