1 OVERVIEW The term Lewy body dementias (LBD) represents two clinical entities – dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). While the temporal sequence of symptoms is different in DLB and PDD, individuals with Lewy body dementias have a progressive dementia plus any combination of the following symptoms: hallucinations, Parkinsonism, fluctuating cognitive abilities,...

The subject of this study is the application piezoelectric direct discharge (PDD) operated with nitrogen to control surface free energy (SFE) polymers. activation area, defined as area zone reaching SFE 58 mN/m for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), characterized. For HDPE, was characterized a function distance from 1 16 mm, flow 5 20 SLM, treatment time 32 ...

INTRODUCTION Parkinson disease (PD) has no specific neuropsychological scales for assessing the most significant cognitive impairment in PD, which has determined the use of subjective criteria or instruments designed for other diseases, making difficult the comparison between studies or the follow-up of patients. A screening test for dementia in PD (Parkinson's Disease Dementia-Short Screen [PD...

The loss of zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) has been implicated in age-related cognitive decline in mice, and the protein has been associated with plaques. We investigated the levels of ZnT3 and postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD95), a marker of the postsynaptic terminal, in people with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD, n = 31), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB, n = 44), Alzheimer's disease (AD, n =...

Pachydermodactyly (PDD), Greek for thick-skin-finger, is an infrequently recognized benign disorder characterized by painless fusiform swelling of the soft tissues around the proximal interphalangeal joints of the hands. Histopathologic features include increased dermal accumulation of collagen fibers. Young males are predominantly affected. PDD is quite rare with approximately 90 cumulative ca...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether we could detect positive surgical margins during open and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy by 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) and mapping of red fluorescence in human prostate cancer cells. METHODS All 52 patients were diagnosed with prostate cancer by biopsy. They had a positive core in the apex or highly ...

This study aimed at investigating the fecal microbiota and metabolome of children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) and autism (AD) in comparison to healthy children (HC). Bacterial tag-encoded FLX-titanium amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) of the 16S rDNA and 16S rRNA analyses were carried out to determine total bacteria (16S rDNA) and metabolically active ...

BACKGROUND There are no studies of autonomic function comparing Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VAD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). AIMS To assess cardiovascular autonomic function in 39 patients with AD, 30 with VAD, 30 with DLB, 40 with PDD and 38 elderly controls by Ewing's battery of autonomic function tests and power spectral analysi...

For more than a decade, researchers have refined criteria for the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and at the same time have recognized that cognitive impairment and dementia occur commonly in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). This article addresses the relationship between DLB, PD, and PD with dementia (PDD). The authors agreed to endorse “Lewy body disorders” as the umbrella t...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are associated with severe cognitive decline, but it is still unclear to what extent they become functionally more similar over time. METHODS We compared amnestic mild cognitively impaired (aMCI; n = 29) patients to mild cognitively impaired (MCI) PD patients (n = 25), and patients with AD (n = 34) to patients with PD dementia (...