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Dementia Causes

Aka: Dementia Causes, Dementia Differential Diagnosis
  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 (MEDLINEPLUS)

Dementia is a word for a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. It is not a specific disease. People with dementia may not be able to think well enough to do normal activities, such as getting dressed or eating. They may lose their ability to solve problems or control their emotions. Their personalities may change. They may become agitated or see things that are not there.

Memory loss is a common symptom of dementia. However, memory loss by itself does not mean you have dementia. People with dementia have serious problems with two or more brain functions, such as memory and language.

Many different diseases can cause dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and stroke. Drugs are available to treat some of these diseases. While these drugs cannot cure dementia or repair brain damage, they may improve symptoms or slow down the disease.

NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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.
Concepts Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
MSH D003704
ICD9 294.2, 290
ICD10 F03
SnomedCT 268675002, 52448006, 88339003, 192180006
DSM4 294.8
English Dementing neurological disease or syndrome, Dementia, neurological, Dementia, AMENTIA, Amentia, DEMENTIA, Dementia NOS, Dementia, NOS, Presenile dementia, NOS, Unspecified dementia, [X]Unspecified dementia, dementia (diagnosis), dementia, Amentias, [X]Unspecified dementia (disorder), Dementia [Disease/Finding], dementia disorder, dementia disorders, dementias, Dementia, unspecified, Dementia (disorder), amentia, [X]Primary degenerative dementia NOS, [X]Senile dementia NOS, [X]Senile psychosis NOS, [X] Primary degenerative dementia NOS, [X] Senile dementia NOS, [X] Senile dementia, depressed or paranoid type, [X] Senile psychosis NOS, [X] Unspecified dementia, Dementias
French DEMENCE, Démence SAI, Amentie, Démence
Portuguese DEMENCIA, Demência NE, Amência, Demência
Spanish DEMENCIA, Amencia, Demencia NEOM, [X]Primary degenerative dementia NOS, [X]Unspecified dementia, [X] Unspecified dementia, [X] Primary degenerative dementia NOS, [X]demencia no especificada, [X]demencia no especificada (trastorno), demencia (trastorno), demencia, Demencia
German DEMENZ, Amentia, Demenz NNB, Nicht naeher bezeichnete Demenz, Demenz
Dutch amentie, dementie NAO, Niet gespecificeerde dementie, dementie, Dementia, Dementie
Italian Demenza NAS, Amenzia, Amenza, Demenza
Japanese 認知症ＮＯＳ, アメンチア, ｱﾒﾝﾁｱ, ﾆﾝﾁｼｮｳNOS, ﾆﾝﾁｼｮｳ, 痴呆状態, 癡呆, 痴呆, 認知症
Swedish Demens
Czech demence, Amence, Demence NOS, Demence
Finnish Dementia
Russian DEMENTSIIA, DEMENTSIIA SENIL'NAIA PARANOIDNAIA, PARANOIDNAIA SENIL'NAIA DEMENTSIIA, SLABOUMIE, ДЕМЕНЦИЯ, ДЕМЕНЦИЯ СЕНИЛЬНАЯ ПАРАНОИДНАЯ, ПАРАНОИДНАЯ СЕНИЛЬНАЯ ДЕМЕНЦИЯ, СЛАБОУМИЕ
Korean 상세불명의 치매
Croatian DEMENCIJA
Polish Demencja, Otępienie, Otępienie przedstarcze, Otępienie starcze
Hungarian Dementia, Amentia, Dementia k.m.n.
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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