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Dementia Improvement after Plasma Exchange for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Worldwide dementia related memory issues affect a great number of patients and families. In this case, a “senior moment” was noted at age fifty and issues with memory and mind progressed resulting in early retirement from work. The patient described here was given a diagnosis of “Pre-Alzheimer'...

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Autor principal: Orehek, Allen J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27672461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6121878
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description Worldwide dementia related memory issues affect a great number of patients and families. In this case, a “senior moment” was noted at age fifty and issues with memory and mind progressed resulting in early retirement from work. The patient described here was given a diagnosis of “Pre-Alzheimer's disease” and presented for further accurate evaluation, diagnosis, and management. The medical management resulted in an improvement in the patients memory and cognitive ability.
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spelling pubmed-50318822016-09-26 Dementia Improvement after Plasma Exchange for Familial Hypercholesterolemia Orehek, Allen J. Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Worldwide dementia related memory issues affect a great number of patients and families. In this case, a “senior moment” was noted at age fifty and issues with memory and mind progressed resulting in early retirement from work. The patient described here was given a diagnosis of “Pre-Alzheimer's disease” and presented for further accurate evaluation, diagnosis, and management. The medical management resulted in an improvement in the patients memory and cognitive ability. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5031882/ /pubmed/27672461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6121878 Text en Copyright © 2016 Allen J. Orehek. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Dementia Improvement after Plasma Exchange for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
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title_full_unstemmed Dementia Improvement after Plasma Exchange for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
title_short Dementia Improvement after Plasma Exchange for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031882/
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