[Dementia with Lewy bodies. A description of a case with a genetic variant].
BACKGROUND
Dementia with Lewy bodies represents the third cause of dementia in the clinicopathological series reported to date.


METHODS
A 79-year-old white female with a 3-year history of symptoms of dementia, Parkinsonism and visual hallucinations; the symptoms were difficult to control with medication and there was a family history of similar clinical pictures of dementia in the paternal grandfather, an aunt on the father's side and six siblings. A genetic study was not possible. The study thus involves a patient with relatives that may have had the pure or mixed variant of these dementias, without the DNA study for determining the e4 allele of the gene for apolipoprotein E that has been found most frequently in dementia due to Alzheimer.
Gámez-Morales
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Servicio de Neurología, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, La Habana, Cuba. lgamez0903@yahoo.es
Hernández-Escalona
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AM
Borroto-Regalado
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del Campo-Hernández
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Velasco-Azcuy
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D000368:Aged; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics; D010375:Pedigree
D000978:Antiparkinson Agents