Dementia medical therapy
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Medical Therapy
The mainstay of management of dementia is :
- Symptomatic
- Treatment of behavioral disturbances
- Environmental manipulations to support function
- Counseling with respect to safety issues.
More precise diagnosis is required for effective management and accurate prognosis. Medical therapy for dementia include:
They increase cholinergic transmission by inhibiting cholinesterase at the synaptic cleft and provide modest symptomatic benefit in some patients with dementia.
Excessive NMDA stimulation can be induced by ischemia and lead to excitotoxicity, suggesting that agents that block pathologic stimulation of NMDA receptors may protect against further damage in patients with vascular dementia.
They have modest benefits in patients with moderate to severe AD[2]
This category includes vitamin E and selegiline [3]
They have modest benefit in delaying functional progression in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer Disease. High dose Vitamin E is associated with an increase in all-cause mortality and also with heart failure in patients with cardiovascular disease.[4]
References
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- ↑ Reisberg B, Doody R, Stöffler A, Schmitt F, Ferris S, Möbius HJ (April 2003). "Memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease". N Engl J Med. 348 (14): 1333–41. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa013128. PMID 12672860.
- ↑ Sano M, Ernesto C, Thomas RG, Klauber MR, Schafer K, Grundman M, Woodbury P, Growdon J, Cotman CW, Pfeiffer E, Schneider LS, Thal LJ (April 1997). "A controlled trial of selegiline, alpha-tocopherol, or both as treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study". N Engl J Med. 336 (17): 1216–22. doi:10.1056/NEJM199704243361704. PMID 9110909.
- ↑ Dysken MW, Sano M, Asthana S, Vertrees JE, Pallaki M, Llorente M, Love S, Schellenberg GD, McCarten JR, Malphurs J, Prieto S, Chen P, Loreck DJ, Trapp G, Bakshi RS, Mintzer JE, Heidebrink JL, Vidal-Cardona A, Arroyo LM, Cruz AR, Zachariah S, Kowall NW, Chopra MP, Craft S, Thielke S, Turvey CL, Woodman C, Monnell KA, Gordon K, Tomaska J, Segal Y, Peduzzi PN, Guarino PD (January 2014). "Effect of vitamin E and memantine on functional decline in Alzheimer disease: the TEAM-AD VA cooperative randomized trial". JAMA. 311 (1): 33–44. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.282834. PMC 4109898. PMID 24381967.