title: A case of dementia with Lewy bodies that temporarily showed symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
abstract: We discuss a case of a 67-year-old male with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) that was initially suspected as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or another type of encephalopathy, because he showed rapidly progressive deterioration, myoclonus, gait disturbance and a decline in activities of daily living. The present study describes a clinically atypical case with probable DLB and reviews similar cases in the literature, and we propose a rapidly progressive clinical subtype of DLB.
authors.affiliation: Kamiiida Daiichi General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. ukai777@kamiiida-hp.jp
authors.forename: Katsuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ukai
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Gen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sobue
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kosaka
authors.forename: Hiroto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shibayama
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iritani
authors.forename: Ryoko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozaki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D000077265:Donepezil; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007189:Indans / Q000627:therapeutic use; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010880:Piperidines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors; D007189:Indans; D010880:Piperidines; D000077265:Donepezil