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Dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]
Te lecture presents modern concept of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), which accounts for about 10% of cases of dementia. Te nosological status of DLB and the problem of ratio of DLB and Parkinson’s disease which,
O. S. Levin +3 more
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Dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]
Objective: The aim of this paper is to summarise recent clinical and research findings with regard to dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Method: A literature review (Medline) was carried out, as well as a review of reports of recent DLB symposia of international meetings and of other relevant papers and data known to the authors.
I, McKeith, J, O'Brien
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Matters Arising ‘Lewy body disease or diseases with Lewy bodies?’
Kurt A. Jellinger
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The broad importance of dementia is undisputed, with Alzheimer's disease justifiably getting the most attention. However, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia, now called Lewy body dementias, are the second most common type of degenerative dementia in patients older than 65 years.
Walker, Zuzana +3 more
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies [PDF]
The advent of new immunostains have improved the ability to detect limbic and cortical Lewy bodies, and it is evident that dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia, after Alzheimer's disease (AD). Distinguishing DLB from AD has important implications for treatment, in terms of substances that may worsen ...
Tanis J, Ferman, Bradley F, Boeve
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Dementia with lewy bodies - diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) accounts for 15-20% of all autopsy confirmed dementias in old age. Characteristic histopathological changes are intracellular Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, with abundant senile plaques but sparse neurofibrillary tangles ...
IG McKeith
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Dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]
Editor – Akintade and Pierres provide a useful review of the evaluation of cognitive impairment in their Acute Medical Care (AMC) report in July’s Clinical Medicine .[1][1] However, the patient described in their report does not have dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
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Report of the second dementia with Lewy body international workshop - Diagnosis and treatment
Background/Objective: The second International Workshop of the Consortium on Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) met to review developments since publication of consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB in 1996. The specificity of
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Lewy bodies (LB) in the substantia nigra are a cardinal pathological feature of Parkinson's disease, but they occur in a number of neurodegenerative diseases and can be widespread in the nervous system. The characteristics, locations, and composition of LB are reviewed, with particular attention to α-synuclein (α-SYN), which appears to be the major ...
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies [PDF]
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common diagnosis of dementia after Alzheimer disease (AD). The essential pathologic feature is the Lewy body, a neuronal inclusion containing α-synuclein, found in brainstem nuclei and the neocortex.
Mary Catherine, Mayo, Yvette, Bordelon
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