Dementia Flashcards
70-year-old male patient known case of HTN
brought to ER by his son, his son reported that
patient had change in behaviors beside his
memory loss, he is fighting with every one in
the street, what is the most likely diagnosis?
Frontotemporal dementia
Old patient with signs of parkinsonism and also
mentioned visual hallucination, what is the
most likely diagnosis?
Lewy body dementia
Which vitamin defciency can mimic dementia
symptoms?
Vitamin B12
70-year-old male K/C of HTN with progressive
decline in cognitive state, MRI showed
Periventricular white matter Hyperintensities,
what is the diagnosis?
Vascular dementia
Old male patient came with his brother, brother
complaining of change in personality, mild
forgetful, MRI show cortical atrophy , what is
the most likely diagnosis?
Alzheimer disease
In Alzheimer- the personality changes are Progressive
while in Frontotemporal dementia Personality changes are
acute
70-year-old male suspected to have Alzheimer
disease with memory loss for the last 1 year,
which of the following investigation we should
do it?
Brian imaging (MRI)
to see the atrophy and to excuse other