“Discovered in the 1960s by declaring with precision the milieu of the 1990s, the Lewy Corps Youth (MCL) is a neurodegenerative complex,” said the Alzheimer’s Association. Baptisée ainsi en l’honneur du Dr Friedrich Heinrich Lewy, qui a été le premier à décrire ces structures, elle a pour conséquence, à l’image de la maldie Alzheimer, d’altérer la facultés in les lectuelles. In fact, it is characterized by the abnormalities of a protein, alpha-synucline, and affecting the areas of the heart responsible for reflection and movement.
In France, with more than 250,000 people taking care of them, 67% of them are diagnosed with reality. Car beaucoup moins connue, et presentant des pepômes proches d’autres maladies degénératives, la maladie à corps de Lewy, aussi appelée “démence à corps de Lewy”, est difficile à repere.
How to distinguish the Alzheimer’s disease?
Outre les troubles cognitifs, plusie manifestations clinical permettent de diagnosequer la maladie. En effet, «contrairement à la maladie d’Alzheimer, les Trobs cognitifs s’accompagnent ici de problèmes moteurs. “In addition to the parkinson maldie, they are famous for a certain raider, a ralentissement engine or shoes.
Other specific features: cardiac modifications. Ainsi “la tension est souvent l’objet de problèmes puisqu’elle peut varier de 15 à 10”, note the Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer. The patient lost his knowledge for this reason. “Cardiac scintigraphy helps medicine distinguish youngsters from Lewy’s body from Alzheimer’s youth,” he said.
There are hallucinations that constitute a specific sign of the youth of Lewy. Le malade a toutefois conscience que ce qu’il voit ou entend n’est pas réel. You have depressive notes and troubles of humor.
What treatments?
It does not exist without treatment. The prize prize is uniquely symptomatic and destined to increase the progression of the Maldives. Medicated drugs that promote the manifestation of cognitive deficits, such as choline inhibitors.
The treatments used for Parkinson’s, as the levodopa, ameliorent notation on the market. And clozapine to reduce the number of hallucinations. Treatments for serotonin reuptake inhibitors are indicated in cases of depression.