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The diagnosis of rapidly progressive dementias (RPDs) can be difficult, as patients frequently present with a quickly evolving multitude of symptoms (Neurol Clin 2007; 25:783). Most neurologists are familiar with the presentation of the prototypical RPD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), but often other etiologies either are not considered or are overlooked. In this study, researchers retrospectively assessed the nonprion pathological diagnoses of patients referred for suspected prion disease to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University from 2006 through 2009, focusing particularly on potentially treatable dementias. Referring physicians provided medical records.
Of 1106 patients' bra…