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Frontotemporal Dementia

Frontotemporal Dementia. American Academy of Neurology John Hart, Jr., M.D. Frontotemporal Dementia. Definition: clinicopathologic condition consisting of deterioration of personality and cognition assoc. with prominent frontal and temporal lobe atrophy Accounts for up to 3-20% of dementias

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Frontotemporal Dementia

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  1. Frontotemporal Dementia American Academy of Neurology John Hart, Jr., M.D.

  2. Frontotemporal Dementia • Definition: clinicopathologic condition consisting of deterioration of personality and cognition assoc. with prominent frontal and temporal lobe atrophy • Accounts for up to 3-20% of dementias • Third behind AD and Lewy Body Dementia in neurodegenerative dementing illnesses

  3. Prevalence • Mean age of onset 52.8 (Ratnavalli et al. Neurology 2002;58:1615-1621) • Male preponderance 14:3 in one study and M=F in others • Dementia prevalence of 81 per 100,000 (95% CI, 62.8 to 104.5) in the 45-64 year age group • Prevalence of AD and FTD in 45-64 age group same at 15 per 100,000 (8.4-27.0)

  4. Frontotemporal Dementia • Thus, common cause of dementia in younger population • Greater caregiver burden and increased dependency and health care costs

  5. Frontotemporal Dementia • Established clinical consensus criteria (The Lund and Manchester Groups, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994;57:416-418; Neary et. al, Neurology 1998;51:1546-1554): • Core features • Insidious onset and slow progression • Early decline of • Social interpersonal conduct • Regulation of personal conduct • Insight • Early emotional blunting

  6. Frontotemporal Dementia • Supportive features: • Decline in personal hygiene and grooming • Mental rigidity and inflexibility • Distractibility and impersistence • Hyperorality • Perseverative behavior • Speech and language

  7. Frontotemporal Dementia • Neuropsychology: • Impaired frontal lobe tests in absence of severe amnesia, aphasia, or visuospatial deficits • Imaging: • Atrophy or decreased uptake in the frontal or anterior temporal lobes (bilateral or unilateral) by MRI, CT, PET, SPECT(The Lund and Manchester Groups, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994;57:416-418; Neary et. al, Neurology 1998;51:1546-1554)

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  10. Frontotemporal Dementia • Recent study showed of 42 FTD cases, 19 had at least 1 other family member affected (Chow et al., Arch Neurol. 1999;56:817-822) • 1/3 had a positive family history in this study, but others much lower • Appears to be inherited in autosomal dominant fashion in those patients • Linked to chromosome 17 (tau gene) and chromosome 3 • Association with motor neuron disease (ALS)

  11. Pathology • Prominent frontal and temporal lobar atrophy • Atrophy may be associated with Pick’s bodies, tauopathy, nonspecific superficial cortical neuron loss (DLDH)

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  13. Frontotemporal Dementia • Term is conventionally used in clinical and pathological diagnoses in standard clinical setting • No other specific code comes reasonably close to capturing disease • Dementia or AD diagnosis (290 or 331) ignores established diagnostic criteria and allows no tracking of FTD

  14. Frontotemporal Dementia • Differs from the other codes including AD, frontal dementia, Pick’s disease • Use of these codes inappropriate as not capture the age of onset, duration of illness, genetic factors, and impact on caregiver, society, and economics • AD  older, different duration, less clear genetics • Frontal dementia  no temporal lobe involvement, genetics differ • Pick’s disease  not capture spectrum of FTD

  15. Frontotemporal Dementia • Implications for FTD different from other dementias/AD: • Greater caregiver burden and increased dependency and health care costs • Patients see codes and think they have some other disease

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