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Clinical Features That Predict Potentially Reversible Progressive Intellectual Deterioration
Author(s) -
FREEMON FRANK R.,
RUDD STEVEN M.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1982.tb03382.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , atrophy , medical record , intellectual impairment , pediatrics , computed tomographic , autopsy , intellectual disability , disease , psychiatry , computed tomography , surgery
The records of 110 patients with progressive intellectual deterioration were reviewed, to identify any clinical features that might predict the presence of an underlying disease potentially reversible with specific medical, surgical, or psychiatric therapy. The 16 patients in whom the intellectual deterioration was caused by such underlying disorders showed a shorter duration of symptoms and less cortical atrophy on a computed tomographic scan than did patients with idiopathic dementia. The average for the patients with a treatable cause of progressive intellectual deterioration was not significantly different from the average age for patients with idiopathic dementia.