Defining diffuse Lewy body disease: Tetrad of symptoms distinguishes illness from other dementias

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 71-75

  Stewart, Jonathan T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Bay Pines VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE PLUS LEVODOPA; BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CARBIDOPA; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CLONAZEPAM; DONEPEZIL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUDROCORTISONE; LAXATIVE; MIDODRINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; RIVASTIGMINE; TRIHEXYL; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL;

AKINESIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 0037963158     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2003.05.1408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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