Johdanto Flashcards
PPA?
Progressive aphasia
AD?
Alzheimer’s disease
nfvPPA
Non-fluent/agrammatic variant PPA
SD?
Semantic dementia
lvPPA?
Logopenic variant PPA
Current diagnostic recommendations for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) include three main subtypes: ?
non-fluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA), characterized by agrammatism and/or apraxia of speech (AOS); logopenic (lvPPA), characterized by impaired repetition and word finding difficulties; and semantic (svPPA), characterized by anomia(patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects), impaired word comprehension, and impaired object recognition
non-fluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA), characterized by?
agrammatism and/or apraxia of speech (AOS)
(lvPPA) characterized by?
logopenic (lvPPA), characterized by impaired repetition and word finding difficulties
(svPPA) characterized by?
semantic (svPPA), characterized by anomia, impaired word comprehension, and impaired object recognition
the term SD acknowl- edges the multimodal nature of patients’ semantic loss and the fact that the earliest presenting symptom may be in the ?
visual rather than verbal domain.
The three PPA subtypes are associated?
with different distributions of atrophy
different distributions of atrophy: nfvPPA with?
left posterior fronto-insular atrophy
lvPPA with?
left posterior perisylvian or parietal atrophy
svPPA with?
anterior temporal lobe atrophy
Most patients with nfvPPA and svPPA/SD have?
frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) spectrum pathologies
most lvPPA patients have ?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, although this is not invariably the case
Neuropsychological studies suggest that current classifications?
Do not encapsulate the full range of PPA syndromes observed, and patients may fulfil the criteria for more than one PPA variant
while each PPA subtype is associated with characteristic deficits
a degree of overlap exists between the subtypes
the core features of lvPPA also occur frequently in nfvPPA