%0 Journal Article
%T Clinical characterization of the fronto-temporal dementia patients.
%A Carlos Alberto Cano Guti¨¦rrez
%A Rafael Antonio Ram¨ªrez Castro
%J MedUNAB
%D 2004
%I Universidad Aut¨®noma de Bucaramanga
%X Three clinical and psychometric profiles of patients with fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) has been recently described as cases series from the most important research centers of the world, where there is the possibility for a diagnosis by a consensus criteria. In this article, a group of patients from the Memory Clinic at the Hospital Universitario de San Ignacio, in Bogot¨¢ City has been studied. Three hundred and forty eight patients were studied by the Memory Clinic Group, of which 45 had the criteria for FTD, 259 the criteria for Alzheimer¡¯s disease (AD) and 44 were controls. The statistical analysis was realized with the best distinctions to define the FTD group were: predominance of men (73% vs. 31% in AD), younger age of onset (65 years vs. 76 years in AD) Columbia Behavioral Scale more compromised (10 vs. 7 in AD and 1 in controls) and MMS inferior to controls (24 vs. 27) but superior to AD (24 vs. 20). These distinctions aid to better define the profile of patients with FTD, but also open a new questions which we expect to answer, soon, in a longitudinal study of this persons.
%K frontotemporal dementia
%K Alzheimer¡¯s disease
%K minimental
%K Columbia behavioral scale
%U http://caribdis.unab.edu.co/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/REVISTAMEDUNAB/NUMEROSANTERIORES/REVISTA720/_OP_3.PDF