Cognitive profiles in degenerative dementia without evidence of small vessel pathology and small vessel vascular dementia
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- 作者：Antonella De Carolis ; Virginia Cipollini ; Nicole Donato…
- 关键词：Cognitive Impairment ; Alzheimer’s disease ; Vascular dementia ; Neuropsychological ; Evaluation
- 刊名：Neurological Sciences
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：38
- 期：1
- 页码：101-107
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- 刊物类别：Medicine
- 刊物主题：Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neurosurgery; Psychiatry;
- 出版者：Springer Milan
- ISSN：1590-3478
- 卷排序：38
文摘
Although a large number of studies have examined possible differences in cognitive performance between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD), the data in the literature are conflicting. The aims of this study were to analyze the neuropsychological pattern of subjects affected by degenerative dementia without evidence of small vessel pathology (DD) and small vessel VaD subjects in the early stages and to investigate differences in the progression of cognitive impairment. Seventy-five patients with probable VaD and 75 patients with probable DD were included. All the subjects underwent a standard neuropsychological evaluation, including the following test: Visual Search, Attentional matrices, Story Recall, Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices, Phonological and Semantic Verbal Fluency, Token, and Copying Drawings. The severity of cognitive impairment was stratified according to the MMSE score. Fifteen subjects with probable DD and 10 subjects with probable VaD underwent a 12-month cognitive re-evaluation. No significant difference was found between DD and VaD subjects in any of the neuropsychological tests except Story Recall in the mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.001). The re-test value was significantly worse than the baseline value in the MMSE (P = 0.037), Corsi (P = 0.041), Story Recall (P = 0.032), Phonological Verbal Fluency (P = 0.02), and Copying Drawings (P = 0.043) in DD patients and in the Visual Search test (P = 0.036) in VaD subjects. These results suggest that a neuropsychological evaluation might help to differentiate degenerative dementia without evidence of small vessel pathology from small vessel VaD in the early stages of these diseases.