Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on dementia with lewy bodies (dlb): clinical features: Essential and core clinical features of DLB Dementia Fluctuating cognition Recurrent well-formed visual hallucinations REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) without atonia Spontaneous Parkinsonism Autonomic…

Essential and core clinical features of DLB

  • Dementia
  • Fluctuating cognition
  • Recurrent well-formed visual hallucinations
  • REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) without atonia
  • Spontaneous Parkinsonism

Autonomic features

Psychiatric features

Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) presentation

Other supportive features

Other presentations

Old synonyms

References

  1. McKeith IG, Boeve BF, Dickson DW, et al. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium. Neurology 2017; 89:88-100. 
  2. McKeith IG, Dickson DW, Lowe J, et al. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Third report of the DLB consortium. Neurology 2005; 65:1863-1872.
  3. Outeiro TF, Koss DJ, Erskine D, et al. Dementia with Lewy bodies: an update and outlook. Mol Neurodegener 2019; 14:5.
  4. Ferman TJ, Boeve BF, Smith GE, et al. Inclusion of RBD improves the diagnostic classification of dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology 2011; 77:875-882.
  5. Munechika T, Fujishiro H, Okuda M, et al. Rapid eye movement sleep without atonia may help diagnose Lewy body disease in middle-aged and older patients with somatic symptom disorder. Psychogeriatrics 2017; 17:61-69.
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