Adapted diagnosis of behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia according clinical for low-education countries: Peru’s case

Custodio N.; Baca-Seminario F.; Carbajal-Silva J.C.; Montesinos R. · Anales de la Facultad de Medicina (2023) · DOI: 10.15381/anales.v84i3.24522

Resumen

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a widely recognized neurodegenerative condition in people under 65 years old. The diagnosis of behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD) is based on a comprehensive clinical assessment, complemented by a multidimensional assessment (neurological, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, biomarker and brain imaging) adapted and validated to the population to be studied; however, despite its increasing prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean, there is a need for standardized tools and consensus for the bvFTD diagnosis. The manuscript attempts to approximate the approach for the diagnosis of bvFTD in the setting of low and middle-income countries, including Peru.

Instituciones: Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista