title: [Mild dementia syndrome in middle and old age].
abstract: 95 elderly and senile patients with mild dementia were followed up: 20 patients with Alzheimer's disease, 25 patients with senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), 25 patients with vascular dementia (VD), 25 patients with combined vascular and Alzheimer's type of dementia (DAT/VD). Follow-up of patients for 1 and 3 years demonstrated that the diagnosis of mild dementia according to CDR and ICD-10 criteria had a differential-diagnostic specificity and reliability. It was also noticed that the nosologic qualification of mild dimentia syndrome was difficult or even impossible in patients with DAT/VD in conditions of a single examination. Only follow-up studies (during 3 years as a rule) may give a chance to define the diagnostic belonging of mild dementia syndrome more precisely.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Zharikov
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012737:Sex Factors; D013577:Syndrome; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Sindrom miagkoĭ dementsii v pozhilom i starcheskom vozraste.