Deans' stroke musings: Alzheimer's can be diagnosed after visit to an eye doctor

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Alzheimer's can be diagnosed after visit to an eye doctor - key sign to look out for

With your elevated chances of dementia post stroke, your competent? doctor is responsible for preventing that! Have they taken on that responsibility? Or are they DOING NOTHING?

With your chances of getting dementia post stroke, you need prevention solutions. YOUR DOCTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PREVENTING THIS!

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.`

3. A 20% chance in this research. July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018

The latest here:

Alzheimer's can be diagnosed after visit to an eye doctor - key sign to look out for

Experts have revealed that one visual symptom can help doctors predict Alzheimer's disease.

A team led by UC San Francisco has identified several visual symptoms linked to a degenerative visual condition found in Alzheimer's patients. Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), also known as Benson's syndrome, often signals the onset of Alzheimer's disease. It can be diagnosed by an eye doctor if they know what to look for. Symptoms include trouble with spatial judgment, difficulty identifying movement, and problems performing everyday tasks.

Despite normal eye exams, this disorder is often missed. The researchers aimed to "improve PCA characterization and recommendations." The study, published in Lancet Neurology, involved data from over 1,000 patients across 36 sites in 16 countries. It focused on a lesser-known aspect of Alzheimer's that affects visual processing.

The researchers found that PCA overwhelmingly predicts Alzheimer's. Some 94 percent of PCA patients had Alzheimer's symptoms or a diagnosis, while the remaining 6 percent had conditions like Lewy body disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

General thinking skills aren't usually affected early in PCA, but mild dementia symptoms often show up by the time patients are diagnosed. This is typically nearly four years after symptoms first appear. The average age of PCA onset is 59, which is younger than when memory symptoms linked to it start showing, making diagnosis tricky. Dr. Marianne Chapleau from UCSF's Department of Neurology emphasised the need for better diagnostic tools for PCA.