Disease Information for Dementia, Lewy-body type
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Demographics & Risk Factors[next]
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Adult/all
- Population/Adult-Aged Only
- Population/Elderly/Aged patient
- Population/Seventies adult
- Sex & Age Groups
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Presentation/Movement disorder/ataxia/dementia progressive
- Disease Progression
- Course/Chronic disorder
- Course/Chronic only
- Course/Exacerbation/remission
- Course/Progressive
- Onset/insidious
- Signs & Symptoms
- Aged Adult
- Hypomimia/Lack of facial expression
- Mask-like facies
- Dysphagia/Swallowing difficulties
- Failure to Thrive
- Rigidity/Muscle/movement
- Muscle stiffness/rigidity
- Stiffness in Extremities
- Altered mental status/Mental status change
- Ataxia
- Ataxia/Staggering Gait
- Basal ganglion signs
- Bradykinesia
- Cognitive defect
- Cogwheel resistance/passive stretch
- Decreased attention span
- Delirium
- Delirium/Agitated delirium
- Dementia with wide fluctuation/cognition/signs
- Drowsiness/somnolence
- Fluctuating consciousness
- Gait disturbance/abnormality
- Memory Loss in Elderly
- Mental slowing/deteriation
- Micrographia
- Motor slowing
- Near recall/memory deficit/defect
- Neurologic manifestations/signs
- Neurological symptoms/signs
- Postural lability/easy to push over
- Progressive neurological disorder/signs
- Rapidly progressive dementia
- Reversed/perverse sleep pattern/rhythm
- Scatologia
- Short term memory loss
- Shuffling 'magnetic' gait
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Tremor
- Tremor 3-4 cps (hertz) frequency
- Tremor in Elderly
- Tremor,resting
- Delusions
- Hallucination/visual
- Low Frustration tolerance in Elderly
- Simian stance/gate/bent forward/stooped/flexed
- Difficulty speaking/phonating
- Hypophonia/Strained/Quiet Voice
- Voice change/disturbance/Unusual
- Urinary Incontinence in Elderly
- Episodic symptoms/events
- Falling
- Falling/in the elderly/complaint
- Typical Clinical Presentation
Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]
- Pathology
- Electrodiagnosis
- CT Scan
Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
- Rule Outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Alzheimers disease
- Carotid sinus syncope/sensitivity
- Cerebral cortical atrophy
- Dementia
- Dementia, Lewy body type
- Hallucinations
- Neurogenic bladder/cord
- Neuroleptics effect/toxicity
- Parkinsonism, secondary
- Parkinsonism-dementia complex
- Parkinsons disease
- Psychosis
- Psychosis, atypical
- Secondary Psychosis/Symptomatic
- Syncope/Fainting
- Akinetic Rigid Syndrome
Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]
- Class
- CLASS/Brain/CNS disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Cerebral cortex disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Neurologic (category)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Pathophysiology/Cortical motor neuron disease
- Pathophysiology/Neurologic degenerative disorder (ex)
- Process
- PROCESS/Degenerative/necrosis disorder (category)
- PROCESS/Use/Age/atrophic disorder (category)
- Class
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- Synonym
- Synonym/Alzheimers with Parkinsons disease
- Synonym/Lewy-body disease
- Synonym/Lewy-body variant/Alzheimers disease
- Synonym/Senile dementia/Lewy-body type
- Synonym
Treatment[previous][top][next]
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Carbidopa-Levodopa (Sinemet)
- RX/Clozapine (Clozaril)
- RX/Donepezil (Aricept)
- RX/No effective/definitive treatment yet available
- RX/Risperidone (Risperdal)
- RX/Tacrine (Cognex)
- SX/Brain biopsy
- Drug Therapy - Indication
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