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Dementia CausesAka: Dementia Differential Diagnosis

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  1. See Also
    1. Dementia
    2. Altered Level of Consciousness
    3. Delirium
  2. Causes of Dementia
    1. Alzheimer's Disease (50-60% of Dementia cases)
    2. Multi-infarct Dementia (15-20% of Dementia cases)
    3. Dementia with Lewy Bodies
    4. Depression or pseudodementia
    5. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
    6. Mass lesions
    7. Drug toxicity or metabolic disturbance
      1. Anticholinergic Medications
      2. Vitamin B12 Deficiency
      3. Hypothyroidism
      4. Alcohol-related Dementia
      5. Wernicke's Encephalopathy
    8. Infections
      1. Jacob-Creutzfeldt Disease
      2. Syphilis
      3. AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
      4. Opportunistic infection (e.g. Toxoplasmosis)
      5. Encephalitis
    9. Pick's Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia)
    10. Progressive supranuclear palsy
    11. Multiple-systems atrophy
    12. Parkinson's Disease

Dementia (C0497327)

Definition (MSH)An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
Definition (CSP)loss of intellectual functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and abstract thinking while vegetative functions remain intact.
ConceptsMental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
ICD9290, 294.8
MSHD003704
EnglishAmentia, Amentias, Dementia, Dementias
Spanishdemencia
Parent ConceptsOrganic psychotic condition (C0520473), Organic brain syndrome (C0029221), Brain Diseases (C0006111), COGNITIVE/CORTICAL DISORDERS (C0549639), Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders (C0029227), Neurodegenerative Disorders (C0524851), [X]Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (C0349079)
SourcesAOD, COSTAR, CSP, CST, DXP, ICD9CM, LCH, MEDLINEPLUS, MSH, MTH, MTHICD9, NCI, NDFRT, OMIM, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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