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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2018

Lewy Body Disease: Clinical and Pathological "Overlap Syndrome" Between Synucleinopathies (Parkinson Disease) and Tauopathies (Alzheimer Disease).

Clovis Foguem, Patrick Manckoundia

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Clovis FoguemAuban Moët Hospital, 137 rue de l'hôpital, BP: 137, 51200, Epernay, France. cfoguem@yahoo.fr.
Patrick ManckoundiaDepartment of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Champmaillot Hospital, 21079, Dijon, France.
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon · FRUniversité de Bourgogne · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lewy body disease (LBD) is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in dementia. It shares clinical and pathological features with Parkinson disease (PD), the most frequent synucleinopathy, Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), and Alzheimer disease (AD), a tauopathy. Even though the diagnostic criteria for these neurodegenerative diseases are clearly established, and recently revised for LBD, their precise clinical diagnosis is often difficult because LBD, PD, PDD, and AD share epidemiological, clinical, and pathological characteristics. This manuscript discusses current understanding of overlapping symptoms and the particular features of LBD, PD, and AD. It also describes features that could facilitate the diagnosis of each of these diseases. We concluded that the concept of neurodegenerative "overlap" syndrome, which includes the accepted diagnosis of LBD, may be taken in account and should contribute to clarifying LBD and definitions of close differential diagnoses. This should allow clinicians to suspect LBD at an earlier stage and provide better patient care.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansLewy Body DiseaseParkinson Diseasetau ProteinsUndifferentiated Connective Tissue DiseasesAmyloid beta-Peptidestau ProteinsAlzheimer diseaseLewy body diseaseOverlapping syndromeParkinson disease

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