Kountouras, Jannis, Boziki, Marina, Gavalas, Emmanuel, Zavos, Christos, Grigoriadis, Nikolaos, Deretzi, Georgia, Tzilves, Dimitrios, Katsinelos, Panagiotis, Tsolaki, Magda, Chatzopoulos, Dimitrios, Venizelos, Ioannis

Infectious agents have been proposed as potential causes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recently, we documented a high prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection in patients with AD. We aim to access the effect of Hp eradication on the AD cognitive (MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination and CAMCOG: Cambridge Cognitive Examination for the Elderly) and functional […]

van der Steen, Jenny T., Albers, Gwenda, Licht-Strunk, Els, Muller, Martien T., Ribbe, Miel W.

Background: The clinical impact of risk score use in end-of-life settings is unknown, with reports limited to technical properties.; Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study to evaluate clinical impact of a validated mortality risk score aimed at informing prognosis and supporting clinicians in decision-making in dementia patients with pneumonia. We performed a trial (n = […]

Aboul-Enein, Fahmy, Kristoferitsch, Wolfgang

Background: An 80-year-old woman presented with progressive cognitive decline and with a 6-month history of gait ataxia. Brain MRI depicted enlarged ventricles and periventricular lesions. Clinical improvement after CSF spinal tap test suggested a normal pressure hydrocephalus syndrome. But CSF pleocytosis with activated lymphocytes and plasma cells and intrathecal Borrelia burgdorferi specific antibody production led […]