Isolated central nervous system Whipple's disease causing reversible frontotemporal-like dementia

Abstract We report a patient with a syndrome resembling frontotemporal dementia (FTD); however, on further diagnostic testing, the diagnosis was Whipple's disease. Because Whipple's disease is treatable, it should be considered in the workup of patients with a FTD-like behavioural and cogn...

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Published in:Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2008-07, Vol.110 (7), p.747-749
Main Authors: Benito-León, Julián, Sedano, Laura F, Louis, Elan D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Central nervous system
Central Nervous System Diseases - complications
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Cognition Disorders - etiology
Dementia - diagnosis
Dementia - etiology
Frontal Lobe - pathology
Frontotemporal dementia
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
Temporal Lobe - pathology
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Whipple Disease - complications
Whipple's disease
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Summary:Abstract We report a patient with a syndrome resembling frontotemporal dementia (FTD); however, on further diagnostic testing, the diagnosis was Whipple's disease. Because Whipple's disease is treatable, it should be considered in the workup of patients with a FTD-like behavioural and cognitive syndrome.
ISSN:0303-8467
1872-6968
DOI:10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.04.014