Diagnosing dementia with Lewy bodies
โ Scribed by Ian G McKeith; John T O'Brien; Clive Ballard
- Book ID
- 117313285
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 354
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common cause of neurodegenerative dementia in older people that has only been recognized in the past decade and that remains widely underdiagnosed. At postmortem examination, affected patients show numerous alpha-synuclein-positive Lewy bodies (LB)
In several retrospective post-mortem studies, patients meeting clinical criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) who gained the greatest cognitive beneยฎt from treatment with an acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor were found to have neocortical Lewy bodies accompanying classical AD neuropathology. Thi