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delirium: general

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  • waxing-and-waning change in level of consciousness
  • caused by almost any medical d/o
  • high morbidity and mortality if untreated
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delirium: epidem

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  • 10-30% of admitted medical pts

- common in elderly, ICU, postop, cancer pts

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delirium: risk factors

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  • adv age
  • brain damage
  • prior delirium
  • alcohol dependence
  • cancer
  • sensory impairment, blindness
  • malnutrition
  • male gender
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delirium: clinical

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MOST common: impairment in recent memory

  • disorientation, usually to time/place
  • language disturbances, speech changes
  • perceptual disturbances, esp visual hallucinations
  • sleep disturbances: SUNDOWNING (daytime drowsiness and night-time insomnia)
  • disturbed psychomotor behavior
  • emotional disturbances
  • perseveration
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delirium: dx

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  • disturbance of consciousness w/reduced ability to focus, sustain, shift attn
  • change in cognition or development of perceptual disturbance (can’t be accounted for by dementia)
  • disturbance develops over short period of tie and fluctuates
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delirium: tx

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  • r/o life-threatening cause, find underlying condition
  • hydration, nutrition
  • 1:1, orient patient, good sleep hygiene
  • Haldol for agitation
  • BZOs only for DTs
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dementia: general

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  • impairment of memory and other cognitive fns WITHOUT altered consciousness
  • most forms progressive, irreversible
  • prevalence doubles every 5 years: 1.5% at 60 yrs, 40% at 90 yrs
  • Alzheimer’s most common, vascular dementia 2nd
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dementia: dx

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  • multiple cognitive deficits manifested by BOTH: memory impairment and 1+ of: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, decreased executive fn
  • cognitive deficits must cause significant impairment and are significant decline
  • do not occur only during delirium
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dementia: assoc sx

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  • delusions and hallucinations: 30%
  • affective sx: 40-50%
  • personality changes
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dementia: reversible causes

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  • workup CBC, electrolytes, TFTs, VDRL/RPR, B12/folate, brain CT/MRI
  • hypothyroidism
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Alzheimer: epidem

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  • most common type of dementia
  • women 3x > men
  • 1st degree relative –> 4x risk
  • Down syndrome –> increased risk
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Alzheimer: clinical

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  • gradual progressive decline in cognitive fn
  • personality chg, mood swings, paranoia common
  • motor and sensory sx absent until late in cours
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Alzheimer: dx

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  • clinical, dx of exclusion unless post-mortem
  • genes: only 5% of cases; APOe4 gene –> homozygotes have 50-90% chance, heterozygotes 45% chance
  • 20% chance overall
  • postmortem: diffuse atrophy with enlarged ventricles, flattened sulci
  • senile plaques and NF tangles
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Alzheimer: pathophys

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  • decrease in ACh - loss of noradrenergic neurons in basal ceruleus and decreased choline acetyltransferase
  • excess of Abeta peptides (overprod, decreased clearance)
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Alzheimer: tx

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  • cholinesterase inhibs for mild-mod dz
    • tacrine, donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine
  • NMDA antagonists for mod-severe dz
    • memantine
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vascular dementia: general

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  • 2nd most common form
  • microvascular dz in brain –> multiple small infarcts
  • risk factors: stroke, DM, HTN, APOe4, male (2x>women)
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vascular dementia: clinical

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  • STEP-WISE deterioration
  • lateralizing signs
  • depression, anger, paranoia common
  • frontal lobe stroke –> SCZ/BiPD/depressive sx
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vascular dementia: tx

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  • cholinesterase inhibitors
  • antiHTN tx to prevent onset (?)
  • symptomatic tx
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lewy body dementia: pathophys

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  • lewy bodies and lewy neurites = pathologic aggregations of alpha synuclein in brain
  • mostly in basal ganglia
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lewy body dementia: clinical

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  • WAXING AND WANING cognition
  • visual hallucinations: animals or people, colorful
  • paranoid delusions
  • parkinsonism
  • SENSITIVITY TO NEUROLEPTICS
  • REM sleep behavior do
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lewy body dementia: dx

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  • onset of dementia w.in 12 mos of parkinsonism sx
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lewy body dementia: tx

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  • cholinesterase inhibs (help with VH)
  • psychostimulants, levodopa/carbidopa, DA agonists
  • atypical neuroleptics
  • clonazepam for REM do
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frontotemporal dementia

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  • diverse group of dos
  • present bw ages 45-65
  • approx 20-30% familial - progranulin or MAPT gene
  • 4-6 years from illness to death
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FTD: clinical

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  • profound chg in personality and social conduct
  • disinhibition
  • echolalia, overeating, oral fixation
  • lack emotional warmth, insight
  • cognitive deficits in attn, executive fn
  • memory, language, spatial functions PRESERVED
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FTD: pathophys

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  • marked atrophy of frontal and temporal lobes

- neuronal loss, microvacuolization, astrocytic gliosis in cortical layer II

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FTD: tx

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  • anticholinergics, antidepressants - for behavioral sx only
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HIV assoc dementia

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  • caused by neutropenia–>infx and direct viral effects
  • risk factors: duration of HIV, low CD4, high VL
  • clinical: rapid decline in cognition, behavior, motor; poor memory and concentration, apathy and social w/d, depression
  • language PRESERVED
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HIV assoc dementia: tx

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  • HAART

- psychostimulants for fatigue and psychomotor retardation

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huntington dz: clinical

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  • onset 35-50 yrs
  • progressive dementia beginning 1 year before/after chorea
  • choreiform movements
  • muscle hypertonicity
  • depression, psychosis, alcoholism
  • INCREASED SUICIDE RATE
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huntington: dx

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  • MRI: caudate atrophy, sometimes cortical atrophy

- genetic testing (CAG repeat expansion, chrom 4)

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parkinson dz: pathophys

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  • substantia nigra DA neuronal loss –> loss of DA provision to BG
  • senile plaques and NF tangles, loss of choline acetyltransferase
  • causes: idiopathic, traumatic, drugs, toxins, encephalitic, familial
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parkinson dz: epidem

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  • 30-40% develp dementia
  • 50% have depression
  • men > women
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parkinson: clinical

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  • similar to Alzheimer
  • dementia rarely initial sx
  • parkinsonism
  • dementia EXACERBATED by antipsychotics
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creutzfeld jakob dz: general

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  • rapidly progressive, degenerative CNS dz
  • prion accumulation
  • older patients
  • small percentage infected via corneal transplants
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CJD: clinical

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  • rapidly progressive dementia 6-12 mos after sx onset
  • > 90% : MYOCLONUS
  • BG and cerebellar dysfn common
  • early sx: personality chg, immature behavior, paranoia
  • rapid progression to stupor/coma/death
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CJD: dx

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  • pathological: spongiform chg in brain tissue
  • periodic generalized sharp waves on EEG
  • 2+: myoclonus, cortical blindness, ataxia, pyramidal/EPS, muscle atrophy, mutism
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normal pressure hydrocephalus

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  • potentially reversible cause of dementia
  • enlarged ventricles, increased CSF pressure
  • cause: idiopathic or 2/2 CSF obstruction
  • Wobbly (gait disturbance), Wet (urinary incontinence), Wacky (dementia)
  • tx: shunt
  • dementia least likely to improve

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