Memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease
✍ Scribed by Andrew Kertesz
- Book ID
- 107543275
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1528-4042
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## Abstract ## Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and its course renders patients functionally disabled. Memantine is the first drug to demonstrate a clinical benefit in the treatment of patients with moderately‐severe to severe AD. ## Objectives Our objective w
This study investigates the tolerability, safety and efficacy of abrupt or stepwise switching from donepezil to memantine treatment in patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease (AD). Outpatients (Table 1), !50 years, with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DSM-IV-TR), MMSE 18 and receiving