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Alzheimer disease

Last reviewed: 15 Aug 2025
Last updated: 20 Aug 2025

Summary

定义

病史和体格检查

关键诊断因素

  • memory loss
  • disorientation
  • nominal dysphasia
  • misplacing items/getting lost
  • apathy
  • decline in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
  • personality change
  • unremarkable initial physical exam
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其他诊断因素

  • mood and behavior changes
  • poor abstract thinking
  • constructional dyspraxia
  • prosopagnosia
  • autoprosopagnosia
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危险因素

  • advanced age
  • family history
  • genetics
  • Down syndrome
  • cerebrovascular disease
  • lifestyle factors and environment
  • use of certain drugs
  • less than high school education
  • traumatic brain injury
  • depression
  • hearing loss
  • periodontal disease
  • visual impairment
  • herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection
  • hyperlipidemia
  • female sex
  • elevated plasma homocysteine level
  • surgery under general anesthesia
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诊断性检查

首要检查

  • cognitive testing
  • CBC
  • metabolic panel
  • serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
  • serum vitamin B12
  • urine drug screen
  • CT brain (without contrast)
  • MRI brain (without contrast)
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需考虑的检查

  • cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis
  • serum rapid plasma reagin/Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL)
  • serum HIV testing
  • formal neuropsychological testing
  • genetic testing
  • fluorodeoxyglucose-PET (FDG-PET)
  • CSF biomarker testing
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新兴检查

  • amyloid-PET
  • blood biomarkers

治疗流程

持续性治疗

all patients

撰稿人

作者

Judith Neugroschl, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York

NY

利益声明

JN participates in research funded by National Institutes for Health (NIH) grants. The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center is a site for clinical research but JN is not the site Principal Investigator, has no role in purchasing nor choosing the studies, and gains no compensation if it succeeds. JN helps to edit the Focus on Healthy Aging Alzheimer's yearly report.

鸣谢

Dr Judith Neugroschl would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Brandy R. Matthews, Dr Asif S. Bhutto, and Dr Julie K. Gammack, the previous contributors to this topic.

利益声明

BRM, ASB, and JKG declare that they have no competing interests.

同行评议者

Roy J. Goldberg, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD

Medical Director

Kings Harbor Multicare Center

New York

NY

利益声明

RJG declares that he has no competing interests.

Philip Scheltens, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology

Department of Neurology/Alzheimer Center

VU University Medical Center

Amsterdam

The Netherlands

利益声明

PS declares that he has no competing interests.

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关键文献

Livingston G, Huntley J, Liu KY, et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing commission. Lancet. 2024 Aug 10;404(10452):572-628. 摘要

American College of Radiology. ACR appropriateness criteria: dementia. 2024 [internet publication].全文

McShane R, Westby MJ, Roberts E, et al. Memantine for dementia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019 Mar 20;(3):CD003154.全文  摘要

Birks JS, Chong LY, Grimley Evans J. Rivastigmine for Alzheimer's disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Sep 22;(9):CD001191.全文  摘要

Birks JS, Harvey RJ. Donepezil for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018 Jun 18;(6):CD001190.全文  摘要

Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Eyler AE, et al. The American Psychiatric Association practice guideline on the use of antipsychotics to treat agitation or psychosis in patients with dementia. Am J Psychiatry. 2016 May 1;173(5):543-6.全文  摘要

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