Is dementia with Lewy bodies the second most common cause of dementia?

JL Heidebrink - Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Lewy bodies were originally described in isolated brainstem nuclei in persons with
Parkinson's disease. They have since been recognized as a widespread and common …

Clinical Lewy body dementia and the impact of vascular components

E Londos, U Passant, A Brun… - International journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To study the prevalence of patients fulfilling the clinical consensus criteria for
dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in a dementia population followed up with postmortem …

Prevalence of vascular lesions in dementia with Lewy bodies. A postmortem study

KA Jellinger - Journal of neural transmission, 2003 - Springer
The frequency of vascular lesions in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has been suggested
to be less common than for Parkinson disease (PD), but exact data on the relationship …

Dementia with Lewy bodies: neuropathology

DW Dickson - Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
The pathologic substrate of the clinical syndrome of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
remains to be determined. Only a few prospective clinicopathologic studies have been …

Prevalence and pathology of dementia with Lewy bodies in the oldest old: a comparison with other dementing disorders

KA Jellinger, J Attems - Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, 2011 - karger.com
Background: While the prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) increases with age, little is
known about the frequency of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in the oldest old. A …

Dementia with Lewy bodies: clinical and pathological diagnosis

IG McKeith - Alzheimer's Reports, 1998 - eprints.ncl.ac.uk
Dementia in old age is now recognised as a pathologically heterogeneous syndrome. This
short review considers clinical and pathological features of dementia with Lewy bodies …

Research evaluation and prospective diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

OL Lopez, JT Becker, DI Kaufer, RL Hamilton… - Archives of …, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To evaluate the relative merits of recently developed criteria for dementia with
Lewy bodies (DLBs) in a longitudinal study of dementia. Design The diagnosis of DLBs was …

Contributions of other brain pathologies in dementia with Lewy bodies

E Londos, U Passant, J Risberg, L Gustafson… - Dementia and geriatric …, 2002 - karger.com
The clinical picture with its pathological correlate was analysed in 16 patients fulfilling
consensus criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The cases were part of a larger …

Prospective validation of consensus criteria for the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

IG McKeith, CG Ballard, RH Perry, PG Ince, JT O'brien… - Neurology, 2000 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To determine the validity of a clinical diagnosis of probable or possible dementia
with Lewy bodies (DLB) made using International Consensus criteria. Background …

Neuropathological correlates to clinically defined dementia with Lewy bodies

E Londos, U Passant, L Gustafson… - International journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To analyse the neuropathological changes behind clinically defined dementia
with Lewy bodies (clinDLB) compared with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease …