Progressive dementia
Clinical Reasoning: A 47-year-old man with diffuse white matter disease and rapidly progressive dementia
... rapidly progressive dementia associated with VGCC antibody in the absence of detected ...with dementia may not prove causality, extensive and exhaustive work-up for other con- ditions were negative, ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 55-year-old man with rapidly progressive dementia and parkinsonism
... rapidly progressive pre- sentation, the age of the patient, the absence of involvement of brainstem, cerebellum, and basal gan- glia, and the absence of involvement of other organs or of family history make ...
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Antibody-LGI 1 autoimmune encephalitis manifesting as rapidly progressive dementia and hyponatremia: a case report and literature review
... In summary, AE is rare and the causes are still largely unknown. It is an under-recognized condition and favor- able prognosis. Our case increases the awareness of anti-LGI1 AE, as early recognition and treatment is ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 71-year-old man with rapidly progressive dementia
... Rapidly progressive dementia is cognitive decline occurring over a period of weeks to months compared to the relatively slow cognitive decline over several years seen in neurodegenerative diseases such as ...
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Clinical Reasoning: Rapidly progressive dementia in a patient with HIV after an exotic journey
... Among the diagnostic investigations supporting the clinical diagnosis of CJD, brain MRI with DWI sequences and the CSF surrogate protein markers 14-3-3 and t-tau have an overall better diagnostic accuracy than the EEG. 9 ...
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Progressive dementia associated with ataxia or obesity in patients with Tropheryma whipplei encephalitis
... T. whipplei encephalitis has two consistent findings: progressive cognitive impairment and the eventual onset of obesity or ataxia. For our 5 patients, the only diagnostic finding was a positive PCR of for ...
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Slowly progressive dementia caused by MAPT R406W mutations: longitudinal report on a new kindred and systematic review
... frontotemporal dementia; CA: Cornu ammonis; CBD: Corticobasal degeneration; CERAD: Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer ’ s Disease; ChEI: Cholinesterase inhibitor; Comp: Compulsive repetition of ...
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Syndromes of Rapidly Progressive Cognitive Decline-Our Experience.
... rapidly progressive dementia and at least two of the following clinical symptoms: pyramidal/extrapyramidal symptoms, visual or cerebellar disturbance, myoclonus, or akinetic mutism with typical ...
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Regional cerebral blood flow study with 123I IMP in patients with degenerative dementia
... In all three patients with progressive dementia and motor neuron disease, flow deficits were demonstrated in the bilateral frontal and temporal cortices, but no flow deficits were seen i[r] ...
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Pearls & Oy-sters: Rapidly progressive dementiaPrions or immunomediated?
... rapidly progressive dementia, the brain MRI abnormalities, EEG findings, and elevation of CSF 14-3-3 and tau protein were initially compatible with a clinical diagnosis of probable ...
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Case Report Differential diagnosis between Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and limbic encephalitis: a case report
... (1) Progressive dementia; (2) At least 2 kinds of the clinical symptoms below: myoclonus, visual or cerebellum disorder, pyramid sign or dys- function of extrapyramidal system and akinetic- mutism; (3) At ...
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Function and regulation of tau conformations in the development and treatment of traumatic brain injury and neurodegeneration
... ral dementia; NFTs: neurofibrillary tangles; PSP: progressive supranuclear palsy; CBD: corticobasal dementia; CTE: chronic traumatic encephalopathy; TBI: traumatic brain injury; rmTBI: repeated mild ...
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... as insoluble plaque, as shown in a group of 128 participants from the prospective and longitudinal Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study on early onset AD (27). Several grants for Alzheimer’s prevention ...
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Psychosis in parkinsonism: an unorthodox approach
... any dementia, psychosis could appear because of a collapse of the ...late dementia may converge to the same phenotype, but our hypothesis is that the starting point may be ...
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
... CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ASPECTS: Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which is spreading very quickly throughout the world. Due to its complex pathology, variable symptoms and unspecific ...
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Adding Chinese herbal medicine to conventional therapy brings cognitive benefits to patients with Alzheimer’s disease: a retrospective analysis
... It’s a retrospective cohort study and patients diagnosed as Alzheimer’s dementia were collected [8, 9]. Medical records between May 2011 to August 2016 were accessed by using administrative datasets of memory ...
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Frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia, a review
... Semantic dementia is a syndrome involving fluent aphasia, with long strings of word production, but early deficits include anomia and impaired knowledge of word meanings, even for single ...semantic ...
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High occurrence of transportation and logistics occupations among vascular dementia patients: an observational study
... beyond the scope of our study, as they constitute a hetero- geneous group and our current interest was specifically in the distribution of dementia types among people who were part of the active workforce. ...
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Trigeminal neuralgia due to pontine infarction
... iors; progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) if aphasia was the predominant feature and was non-fluent with hesitancy and pho- netic errors; semantic dementia (SD) if there was loss of verbal semantic ...
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Re designing dementia
... • Hynes S, Field B, Ledgerd R, Swinson T, Wenborn J, Di Bona, L, Moniz- Cook E, Poland F and Orrell M (2016) Exploring the need for a new UK occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and family ...
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