Clinical diagnosis of Lewy body dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lewy body dementia, consisting of both dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), is considerably under-recognised clinically compared with its frequency in autopsy series.

Aims

This study investigated the clinical diagnostic pathways of patients with Lewy body dementia to assess if difficulties in diagnosis may be contributing to these differences.

Method

We reviewed the medical notes of 74 people with DLB and 72 with non-DLB dementia matched for age, gender and cognitive performance, together with 38 people with PDD and 35 with Parkinson's disease, matched for age and gender, from two geographically distinct UK regions.

Results

The cases of individuals with DLB took longer to reach a final diagnosis (1.2 v. 0.6 years, P

SUBMITTER: Surendranathan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7345593 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature