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- Case Studies in Dementia
- Case Studies in Dementia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Case 1 A Young Missionary with Problems Quoting the Bible
- Case 2 Care Planning and Decision-Making through the Stages of Dementia
- Case 3 A Young Man with Memory and Walking Difficulties
- Case 4 Elderly Man Repeating Questions about Upcoming Appointments
- Case 5 A Devoted Wife with an Atypical Finding
- Case 6 A Challenging Thesis
- Case 7 The Forgetful Golfer
- Case 8 The Innapropriate Pedagogue
- Case 9 A 59-Year-Old Man with Weakness and Personality Changes
- Case 10 A Woman with Progressive Episodic Memory Loss and Personality Change
- Case 11 Left-Handed Man with Memory Complaints
- Case 12 Middle-Aged Man Concerned about His Family History
- Case 13 Man Having Trouble Reading
- Case 14 Speechless at First Sight
- Case 15 From Stuttering to Mutism
- Case 16 Middle-Aged Man Looking for Words
- Case 17 The Man Who Stopped Reading
- Case 18 A Meaningless World
- Case 19 Obsessive Mandala Drawing in Semantic Dementia
- Case 20 Forced into Retirement
- Case 21 Who Are These People in My Living Room?
- Case 22 Case of Parkinsonism That Never Had a Good Response to Levodopa
- Case 23 Common Complaints; Rare Pathology
- Case 24 Tremor, Hallucinations, and Cognitive Decline
- Case 25 Dementia Following Stroke
- Case 26 Vascular Cognitive Impairment
- Case 27 Rapidly Progressive Behavioral Changes and Cognitive Symptoms in a 29-Year-Old Woman
- Case 28 Young Woman Feeling Sick and Confused
- Case 29 A Man with Urinary Incontinence and Trouble Walking
- Case 30 Something Very Wrong Happened Very Fast
- Case 31 Siblings with a Fatal Cause of Rapidly Progressive Dementia
- Case 32 Left or Right: Which Way to Go?
- Case 33 Young Woman with Problems Concentrating
- Case 34 Concerns about the Future
- Appendix: Diagnostic Criteria
- Index
- References
Case 24 - Tremor, Hallucinations, and Cognitive Decline
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2021
- Case Studies in Dementia
- Case Studies in Dementia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Case 1 A Young Missionary with Problems Quoting the Bible
- Case 2 Care Planning and Decision-Making through the Stages of Dementia
- Case 3 A Young Man with Memory and Walking Difficulties
- Case 4 Elderly Man Repeating Questions about Upcoming Appointments
- Case 5 A Devoted Wife with an Atypical Finding
- Case 6 A Challenging Thesis
- Case 7 The Forgetful Golfer
- Case 8 The Innapropriate Pedagogue
- Case 9 A 59-Year-Old Man with Weakness and Personality Changes
- Case 10 A Woman with Progressive Episodic Memory Loss and Personality Change
- Case 11 Left-Handed Man with Memory Complaints
- Case 12 Middle-Aged Man Concerned about His Family History
- Case 13 Man Having Trouble Reading
- Case 14 Speechless at First Sight
- Case 15 From Stuttering to Mutism
- Case 16 Middle-Aged Man Looking for Words
- Case 17 The Man Who Stopped Reading
- Case 18 A Meaningless World
- Case 19 Obsessive Mandala Drawing in Semantic Dementia
- Case 20 Forced into Retirement
- Case 21 Who Are These People in My Living Room?
- Case 22 Case of Parkinsonism That Never Had a Good Response to Levodopa
- Case 23 Common Complaints; Rare Pathology
- Case 24 Tremor, Hallucinations, and Cognitive Decline
- Case 25 Dementia Following Stroke
- Case 26 Vascular Cognitive Impairment
- Case 27 Rapidly Progressive Behavioral Changes and Cognitive Symptoms in a 29-Year-Old Woman
- Case 28 Young Woman Feeling Sick and Confused
- Case 29 A Man with Urinary Incontinence and Trouble Walking
- Case 30 Something Very Wrong Happened Very Fast
- Case 31 Siblings with a Fatal Cause of Rapidly Progressive Dementia
- Case 32 Left or Right: Which Way to Go?
- Case 33 Young Woman with Problems Concentrating
- Case 34 Concerns about the Future
- Appendix: Diagnostic Criteria
- Index
- References
Summary
A 72-year-old woman was seen with her husband at the movement disorder clinic. She was referred by her attending neurologist who has been following her for 9 years for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Her symptoms had begun 10 years ago, with a left arm tremor that progressively worsened to affect the left side of her body and her right arm. The tremor was accompanied by generalized slowness of movement and stiffness. She was put on l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) 8 years ago with a good initial response. Doses were progressively increased over the years. When seen at the clinic, she was taking L-DOPA/carbidopa (referred to as L-DOPA) 100/25 mg 1.5 pills every 3 hours from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, a total of 10.5 pills daily. Sometimes, she had to take an extra pill at night because of difficulty turning over in bed. She believed the effect of the antiparkinsonian medication was not lasting more than 2.5 hours and felt uncomfortable, with tremor resurgence, about 30 min before taking the next L-DOPA dose. Approximately 1 hour after L-DOPA intake, she would present fidgetiness and mild abnormal movements that were not bothersome but that were noticed by her husband and children. She had a few accidental falls. She sometimes experienced dizziness upon standing up rapidly. Approximately 1 year ago, she began experiencing visual hallucinations (VHs) that were, at times, frightening and prevented the neurologist from increasing L-DOPA doses. Most of the times, the VHs consisted of bugs, but on a few occasions they encompassed faces of unknown people. She had to be put on quetiapine 25 mg a.m. and 50 mg at bedtime to alleviate these VHs. Her husband was also concerned that she had become more forgetful in the past year. She was more apathetic and was not interested in going out anymore. At times, she was going through episodes of confusion. She was also experiencing episodes of daytime sleepiness and would have to nap for at least 1 hour every afternoon.
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- Case Studies in DementiaCommon and Uncommon Presentations, pp. 109 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021