[메디컬투데이=이승재 기자] A prognosis of ‘LANS’, a neurodegenerative illness distinct from Alzheimer’s illness, was established.
The outcomes of a examine on the institution of diagnostic and diagnostic standards for ‘LANS’, a neurodegenerative illness characterised by neurodegeneration of the limbic system, had been printed within the journal ‘Mind Communications’.
Once we consider dementia, we often consider Alzheimer’s illness. Though Alzheimer’s illness is the commonest sort of dementia, dementia can seem in several types, comparable to Lewy physique dementia or frontotemporal dementia.
Degenerative mind circumstances, comparable to gentle cognitive impairment (MCI), also called a precursor to dementia, can take many types.
Researchers on the Mayo Clinic within the US, primarily based on medical knowledge from greater than 200 folks on the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Illness Analysis Middle, recognized ‘LANS’, a brand new neurodegenerative illness that’s completely different from Alzheimer’s illness, and established the rods- diagnostic measurements for established LANS .
LANS is an abbreviation for ‘Amnestic Predominantly Limbic Neurodegenerative Syndrome’, which interprets as ‘Predominant Limbic Amnestic Neurodegenerative Syndrome’. As a result of the reminiscence issues that happen in LANS usually are not particular or particular, it has not been straightforward to determine LANS as a brand new prognosis.
Nevertheless, the researchers mentioned that LANS is characterised by degenerative modifications within the limbic system, a mind space that performs an essential position in reminiscence, and that they established diagnostic standards primarily based on this.
LANS diagnostic standards recognized by the researchers embody ‘a neurodegenerative situation that doesn’t seem like related to different ailments and progresses regularly for greater than 2 years’ , ‘age over 75 years’, ‘syndrome with gentle medical signs’, and ‘disproportionate hippocampal atrophy’, ‘weak semantic reminiscence capability’, ‘decreased limbic metabolism, no neocortical degeneration’, and ‘low capability for cognitive- neocortical data tau’.
As well as, a protein known as ‘TDP-43’ has additionally been used within the prognosis of LANS. Based on earlier analysis, TDP-43 is a substance that accumulates within the limbic system and causes ‘age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE-NC).’
The researchers defined that though the underlying causes of LANS could also be completely different, it’s characterised by indicators of neurodegeneration primarily based on the limbic system, and LATE-NC may cause LANS within the this fashion too.
They concluded that these outcomes established the prognosis of LANS, a brand new neurodegenerative illness distinct from Alzheimer’s illness.
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2024-07-28 23:11:45
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