Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy or Frontotemporal Dementia? A Case Study
Received Date: Aug 31, 2017 / Accepted Date: Sep 04, 2017 / Published Date: Sep 11, 2017
Abstract
A 67 year old patient developed progressive behavioral abnormalities and executive dysfunction corresponding to the diagnosis of behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Unexpectedly, MRI showed multiple vascular ischemic and hemorrhagic lesions as typically found in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (SCAA). Based on clinical, laboratory and imaging findings the diagnosis of possible SCAA was made. SCAA may represent another important differential diagnosis among the various underlying disease pathologies of the bvFTD syndrome.
Keywords: Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Behavioral abnormalities; Dysexecutive syndrome
Citation: Benke T, Karner E, Scherfler C, Dazinger F, Donnemiller E (2017) Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy or Frontotemporal Dementia? A Case Study. J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 7: 373. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000373
Copyright: © 2017 Benke T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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