Dementia
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Etiology
Reversible causes
- Hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism
- Depression
- Drugs, eg, anticholinergics, sedatives, antipsychotics, opioids
- Vitamin B12 or thiamine deficiency
- Hypercalcemia
- Uremic or hepatic encephalopathy
- Space-occupying lesion, eg, brain tumor, subdural hematoma
- Neurosyphilis
- HIV
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Wilson’s disease
- Sleep apnea
- Chronic meningitis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Huntington’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia, eg, Pick’s disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Etiology
Reversible causes
- Hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism
- Depression
- Drugs, eg, anticholinergics, sedatives, antipsychotics, opioids
- Vitamin B12 or thiamine deficiency
- Hypercalcemia
- Uremic or hepatic encephalopathy
- Space-occupying lesion, eg, brain tumor, subdural hematoma
- Neurosyphilis
- HIV
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Wilson’s disease
- Sleep apnea
- Chronic meningitis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Huntington’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia, eg, Pick’s disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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