rapidly progressive dementia

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Introduction

  • rapidly progressive dementia represents a subset of neurologic disorders resulting in cognitive, behavioral, & motor decline within 2 years
  • timely recognition of patients with treatment-responsive rapidly progressive dementia may minimize diagnostic delays & missed opportunities for treatment of these patients[4]

Etiology

* potentially treatable ** most common treatable disorder

Laboratory

Diagnostic procedures

Radiology

More general terms

References

  1. Chitravas N et al. Treatable neurological disorders misdiagnosed as Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease. Ann Neurology 2011 14 Jun PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21674591
  2. Rosenbloom MH, Atri A. The evaluation of rapidly progressive dementia. Neurologist. 2011 Mar;17(2):67-74. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364356
  3. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Satyadev N, Tipton PW, Martens Y et al. Improving early recognition of treatment-responsive causes of rapidly progressive dementia: The STAM3P score. Ann Neurol 2023 Oct 2; [e-pub]. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37782554 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.26812