BACKGROUND: Patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD) have particularly marked cholinergic deficits and carry a high inherent risk of neuroleptic hypersensitivity. Therefore, the application of sedative or hypnotic drugs in LBD is difficult and limited. CASE STUDY: In a patient with the full clinical ...
Lewy body dementia (LBD) describes neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the pathological aggregation of α-syn into LBs in the brain [14]. Two well-known subtypes of LBD include DLB and PDD. While DLB and PDD clinical pathologies overlap, they are differentiated by the chronology of sympto...
Melissa J. Armstrong of the University of Floria discusses the symptoms of Lewy body dementia and the importance of an accurate diagnosis.
The current nosological concept of α-synucleinopathies characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies (LBs) includes Parkinson’s disease (PD), Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), for which the term “Lewy body diseas
Lewy body dementia (DLB) is a common form of cognitive impairment, accounting for 30% of dementia cases in ages over 65 years. Early diagnosis of DLB has been challenging; particularly in the context of differentiation with Parkinson’s disease dementia and other forms of dementias, such as Al...
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most frequent diagnosis of progressive degenerative dementia in older people. Delusions are common features in DLB and, among them, Capgras syndrome represents the most frequent disturbance, characterized by the recurrent and transient belief that a ...
Visual hallucinations (VH) are frequent in Lewy Body disease (LBD), and their phenomenology varies widely among patients and according to disease stage. LBD includes Parkinson’s disease (PD), Parkinson dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) that share clinical features and neuropathol...
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has over the last two decades become recognised as a common dementia subtype in older people. Since it shares clinical and pathological features with both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, knowledge of DLB is.
Another important issue to consider is the relationship between the diagnosis of DLB and that of dementia occurring in a patient with a pre-existing clinical diagnosis of PD, usually referred to as PDD. This has been a source of controversy and, therefore, needs clarification and continued resear...
MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGSdoi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.10.016AnharHassanSDOSMayo Clinic Proceedings