L11: FTD & LBD Flashcards
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Begins with ……
marked behavioural disturbances, unlike AD
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Progression
Illness progresses for years, like AD
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Classic Form
Pick’s disease.
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Symptoms
- Patients frequently hot-tempered and socially disinhibited.
- Memory & visuo-spatial skills spared.
- Impaired planning, judgement, and language.
- Echolalia + Overlap with PSP, CBD, motor neuron disease.
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Decline
Inevitable
CP of Frontotemporal Dementia
- Historfy
50% of patients have a family bistory.
INVx for Frontotemporal Dementia
MRI: lobar atrophy of frontal and/or temporal.
Epidemeology of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- 2nd most common cause of dementia after AD
CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- Site of Lewy Bodies
Lewy bodies are found in brain stems, limbic system, and cortex.
CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- Patients have clinical parkinsonism with early & prominent dementia.
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CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- Visual hallucinations & cognitive fluctuations are common
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CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- Capgras syndrome
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CP of Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
- REM Sleep Disorder
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