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A 5-Year Clinical Course Of Phenocopy Syndrome Of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Case Report And Literature Review, Joseph Melillo, Keyur Patel, Christian White
A 5-Year Clinical Course Of Phenocopy Syndrome Of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Case Report And Literature Review, Joseph Melillo, Keyur Patel, Christian White
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Frontotemporal dementia is a neurocognitive disease which affects language, behavior, or executive functioning. This disease includes a spectrum of presentations which includes multiple variants. The phenocopy syndrome of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia is one which mimics the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia. Patients with this condition show a decline in personality, social conduct and cognitive ability but often display no signs of neurological imaging and exhibit slow progression. This case focuses on a now 70-year-old male who has shown signs of behavioral changes with a slowly progressive clinical course and minimal findings on PET scan, but moderate changes seen on …
Distinguishing Multiple System Atrophy Vs Parkinson’S Disease In An African American Woman, Mahoua Kane, Rebecca Smith, Venkat Venkataraman
Distinguishing Multiple System Atrophy Vs Parkinson’S Disease In An African American Woman, Mahoua Kane, Rebecca Smith, Venkat Venkataraman
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
An 87-year-old African American woman with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation on warfarin and peripheral neuropathy with a family history of myasthenia gravis presented to the Emergency Department. The primary reason was loss of consciousness upon standing. The patient was given the diagnosis of hypertension, cervical spinal stenosis, and Parkinson’s Disease. There is little improvement with medications for any of these conditions. Currently, patient has episodes of worsening BP, blackouts, dysphagia, snoring, decreasing voice pitch with trismus. In addition, the patient is positive for dizziness, mild resting tremor in left hand with rigidity, constipation, multiple UTIs and postural …