Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

Identifying dementia lewy bodies in alzheimer dementia: Case report

  • Author:
  • Christophorus Aditya Pawitan1,2, Yulia Fatima Bessing3,*, Erikavitri Yulianti4,2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 191 to 195

1Psychiatry Resident, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

2Dr. Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia

3Psychogeriatric, Dr. Radjiman Wediodiningrat Mental Hospital, Lawang, Indonesia

4Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

*Corresponding Author E-mail: dryulia@rsjrw.id

Online published on 14 May, 2025.

Abstract

Older persons are most commonly affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this case study, there is a challenge in diagnosing mixed Alzheimer Disease (AD) and Dementia Lewy Bodies (DLB). A 89 years old patient from outpatient clinic had clinical feature of AD but also of DLB. In discussion, we analyzed the core feature of DLB in mixed case AD-DLB, because AD symptom said to be more dominant in mixed case, which may cause the low awareness of DLB. Its important that DLB diagnosed as soon as possible, especially due to the sensitivity toward antipsychotic. And lastly, there might be a need for further discussion of mixed type AD-DLB clinical feature for use in clinical setting.

Keywords

Alzheimer disease (AD), Dementia Lewy Bodies (DLB), Human and Health