Publications by authors named "Vincenzo Autieri"
[Comparaison du déclin fonctionnel entre des patients atteints de démence à corps de Lewy et de la maladie d'Alzheimer].
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease (AD) and this study focuses on comparing decline in functionality between LBD and AD patients over 18 months.
- The research involved 37 AD and 36 LBD patients aged over 70, all with a minimum MMSE score of 20, and found that LBD patients experienced a significant decline in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) compared to AD patients.
- Specifically, LBD patients showed a more rapid decrease in autonomy regarding personal care tasks such as bathing and dressing, highlighting a faster decline in their functional ability than that seen in AD patients.
Objectives: Primary acute convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage (cSAH) in older patients can be observed in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) or idiopathic (with cSAH as potential initial manifestation of suspected CAA). We aimed to analyze baseline, clinical and MRI (including quantitative cSAH surface analysis and topographical probabilistic cSAH mapping) characteristics in elderly cSAH patients with CAA.
Materials And Methods: Baseline/clinical/MRI characteristics of 50 consecutive primary acute cSAH patients ≥ 55 years with suspected/possible/probable CAA were retrospectively analyzed.