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Portuguese Consensus on the Diagnosis and Management of Lewy Body Dementia (POR...
Monteiro, A; Velon, AG; Rodrigues, AM; Oliveira, A; Valadas, A; Nóbrega, C; Cruto, C; Neutel, D; Simões do Couto F; Morgado J; Cerejeira, J; Ruano, LLewy body dementia is a common cause of dementia leading to the progressive deterioration of cognitive function and motor skills, behavioral changes, and loss of autonomy, impairing the quality of life of patients and their families. Even though it is the second leading cause of neurodegenerative dementia, diagnosis is still challenging, due to its heterogenous clinical presentation, especially in the early sta...
Increased risk of melanoma in C9ORF72 repeat expansion carriers: A case-control...
Tábuas-Pereira, M; Almendra, L; Almeida, MR; Durães, J; Pinho, AR; Matos, A; Negrão, L; Geraldo, A; Santana, IINTRODUCTION: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are considered part of the same pathological spectrum. There is an increased risk of ALS in patients who have had melanoma. The risk of FTLD in melanoma (or cancer) patients is unknown. We aimed to study if C9ORF72 expansion is linked to a higher prevalence of melanoma. METHODS: We selected patients with a diagnosis i...
Aphasia Rapid Test: Translation, Adaptation and Validation Studies for the Port...
Tábuas-Pereira, M; Freitas, S; Beato-Coelho, J; Ribeiro, JA; Parra, J; Martins, C; Silva, M; Matos, MA; Nogueira, AR; Silva, F; Sargento-Freitas, JClassical aphasia evaluation scales are too long to use in the context of acute stroke or as a monitoring tool. The Aphasia Rapid Test is a 26-point scale developed as a bedside assessment to rate aphasia severity in acute stroke patients in less than 3 minutes. We aimed to adapt and validate this scale for European Portuguese.
Discriminative capacity and construct validity of the Clock Drawing Test in Mil...
Duro, D; Freitas, S; Tábuas-Pereira, M; Santiago, B; Botelho, MA; Santana, IOBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric and diagnostic properties of the Clock Drawing Test (CDT), scored according to the Babins, Rouleau, and Cahn scoring systems, for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening, and develop corresponding cutoff scores. Additionally, we assessed the construct validity of the CDT through exploratory and confirmatory factor a...
Biparietal variant of Alzheimer's disease: a rare presentation of a common disease
Marques, IB; Tábuas-Pereira, M; Milheiro, M; Santana, IAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a clinically heterogeneous disease that may have atypical presentations with focal cortical syndromes and relatively preserved episodic memory. The posterior variant of AD has two subtypes: occipitotemporal, presenting with visuoperceptive impairment, and biparietal, presenting with visuospatial dysfunction and apraxia. We report a case of a 51-year-old woman with progressive limb ap...