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QuestionChoice
These features are characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegeneration involving hippocampal neuronal loss and cortical atrophy.
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Insidious cognitive impairment and episodic memory loss
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The features listed here are characteristic of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a Parkinson-plus syndrome. PSP can involve some features of Parkinsonism such as bradykinesia and tremor, however, the features of impaired vertical gaze and cognitive impairment are more indicative of PSP than true Parkinson’s disease.
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Postural instability and falls, impaired vertical gaze, bradykinesia, cognitive impairment
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These features are the classical triad of features seen in normal pressure hydrocephalus, a reversible cause of dementia. This is most commonly seen in the elderly and is thought to be due to decreased absorption of cerebrospinal fluid at the arachnoid villi.
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Urinary incontinence, dementia, slow shuffling gait
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Although present in the later stages of multiple neurodegenerative diseases, these features would unlikely be seen alone in Parkinson’s disease, and are more likely to point to a diagnosis of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.
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Disinhibition, apathy, loss of executive dysfunction
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These three features are characteristic of Parkinson’s disease. Other features of Parkinson’s disease include postural hypotension due to autonomic dysfunction, mask-like facies, depression, dementia and sleep disturbance.
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‘Cogwheel’ rigidity, resting ‘pill-rolling tremor, slow shuffling gait with a stopped posture
Concept
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Parkinson's Disease
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Neurology
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Which set of clinical features would most likely be seen in a patient with Parkinson’s disease?
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