Rapidly Progressive Dementia
Clinical Reasoning: A 55-year-old man with rapidly progressive dementia and parkinsonism
... the 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 ...
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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 ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 47-year-old man with diffuse white matter disease and rapidly progressive dementia
... and 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 ...
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Immune responses in rapidly progressive dementia: a comparative study of neuroinflammatory markers in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis
... with rapidly progressive ...a rapidly progressive form of AD (rpAD) (n =15) and control (n =12) patients was performed by using the Bio-Plex Pro human cytokine 17-plex ...
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Increased interleukin-17 in the cerebrospinal fluid in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a case-control study of rapidly progressive dementia
... Results: Levels of the two cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 receptor antagonist and IL-17 were significantly elevated in the patients with sCJD compared with those in the patients with nonin[r] ...
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Rapidly progressive dementia with thalamic degeneration and peculiar cortical prion protein immunoreactivity, but absence of proteinase K resistant PrP: a new disease entity?
... to progressive gait disorder in the past 6 ...months. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) was suspected clinically although it was felt that the patient’ s long-standing alcohol abuse precluded a clinical ...
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Clinical Reasoning: Rapidly progressive dementia in a patient with HIV after an exotic journey
... of progressive neurologic syndromes because of its high ...of rapidly progressive dementias to include cases with a relatively low pretest probability of ...
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Neuroimaging of Rapidly Progressive Dementias, Part 1: Neurodegenerative Etiologies
... onset dementia, which, for the purposes of this review, is generally 6 months from onset of symptoms to fulminant ...Table, rapidly progressive demen- tias may present with a wide variety of ...
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Pearls & Oy-sters: Rapidly progressive dementiaPrions or immunomediated?
... of 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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Syndromes of Rapidly Progressive Cognitive Decline-Our Experience.
... slowly progressive degenerative diseases of brain for which treatment options are very less and carry a lot of burden on family and ...are rapidly progressive and mostly carry a different course ...
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Axial mitochondrial myopathy in a patient with rapidly progressive adult-onset scoliosis
... the rapidly-progressive scoliosis the patient devel- oped at the age of 65 is a consequence of the primary axial mitochondrial myopathy caused by the accumulation of somatic mtDNA abnormalities, including ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 20-year-old woman with rapidly progressive weakness
... This patient presented with rapidly progressive sym- metric weakness preceded by several days of abdomi- nal pain of unclear etiology. Associated symptoms included headaches, labile mood, and dark urine. ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain protein levels in subtypes of frontotemporal dementia
... Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative conditions affecting the frontal and temporal lobes and, to a varying degree, the subcortical grey ...and progressive aphasias, ...
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High occurrence of transportation and logistics occupations among vascular dementia patients: an observational study
... In contrast to our present study, most previous studies operationalized occupation by complexity level. Apart from the coarse ratings such as “white versus blue collar,” more fine-grained classifications have been made ...
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A case of rapidly progressive IgA nephropathy in a patient with exacerbation of Crohn’s disease
... in rapidly progressive IgAN, and high levels of circulating immune complexes correlate with the clinical activity and extent of glomeru- lar crescent formation ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: clinical utility of an extended panel of biomarkers in a specialist cognitive clinic
... with dementia, and finally in cases with dementia also adjusting for age, sex, and disease dur- ...across dementia-only groups was statistically significant (p < ...
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Spectrum of noncerebrovascular rapidly progressive cognitive deterioration: a 2-year retrospective study
... Compared with the common chronic causes of cognitive impairment and dementia, RPCD usually has a relatively fast rate of progression course and some of them are caused by reversible conditions. For a neurologist, ...
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Clinical features and multidisciplinary approaches to dementia care
... managing dementia is highly recommended in clinical prac- tice because no single healthcare specialty has the expertise to deal with the complex range of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional problems ...
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Deficits of knowledge versus executive control in semantic cognition: Insights from cued naming
... populations can reflect a number of distinct underlying impairments. (1) There may be degradation of semantic knowledge itself, as in semantic dementia (SD). (2) Patients with agnosia or pure word deafness have ...
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