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    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
    Irreversible causes
    • 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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    Last updated: December 1, 2014

    Citation

    Zeiger, Roni F.. "Dementia." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia.
    Zeiger RF. Dementia. Diagnosaurus. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia. Accessed March 22, 2019.
    Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Dementia. In Diagnosaurus. Available from https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia
    Zeiger RF. Dementia [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2019 March 22]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia.
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