differential diagnosis types of dementia
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Differential diagnosis
- Alzheimer's disease
- vascular dementia
- lewy body dementia
- onset gradual
- cognitive symptoms
- memory inpairment, visuospatial dysfunction, visual hallucinations, fluctuating symptoms, REM sleep behavioral disorder, sensitivity to neuroleptics
- motor symptoms:
- parkinsonism present prior to or with cognitive impairment, frequent falls
- disease progression: gradual, faster than Alzheimer's disease
- brain MRI: global atrophy
- frontotemporal dementia
- gradual onset < 65 years of age
- cognitive symptoms
- executive dysfunction, personality changes, disinhibition, language impairment, +/- memory impairment
- motor symptoms: none
- disease progression: gradual, faster than Alzheimer's disease
- brain MRI: atrophy in frontal lobes & temporal lobes
- autoimmune dementia
- frontal-subcortical dementia
- cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- rapidly progressive dementia
- mixed dementia
- semantic dementia
- Parkinson's dementia
- dementia pugilistica
* see specific dementia for characteristic features
More general terms
References
- ↑ Talebraza S et al Geriatrics Evaluation & Management Tools American Geriatrics Society. 2021 https://geriatricscareonline.org/ProductAbstract/geriatrics-evaluation-management-tools/B007/