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• 영문명: Update Treatment of Dementia - Focus on Pharmacologic Treatment -
• 발행기관: 대한노인정신의학회
• 저자명: 이강준(Kang Joon Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『노인정신의학』노인정신의학 제12권 제1호, 17~27쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

Dementia is an increasingly common diagnosis in our population, and the numbers are expected to rise exponentially in coming years. Within the past decades research has progressed rapidly on multiple fronts, including epidemiology, etiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. This article reviews the evidence for the effecacy of various pharmacologic treatments on dementia. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA antagonist are effective in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Benefit for vitamine E, antiinflammatory drugs and ginko biloba have been suggested, but supporting evidence is not strong. And although antipsychotics have efficacy and safety in the treatment of aggression, agitation, and psychosis in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, adverse effects limit their overall effectiveness. SSRI and atypical antipsychotic agents are frequently used to manage behavioral abnormalities associated with frontotemporal dementia. Cholinesterase inhibitors and levodopa have been reported to improve hallucination, cognition, apathy in dementia with Lewy bodies. And pharmacological intervention was largely ineffective in the management of corticobasal degeneration. Phenothiazine, quinacrine are being evaluated as treatment for CJD patients in trials. Cholinergic deficits in vascular dementia are due to ischemia of basal forebrain nuclei and of cholinergic pathways and can be treated with the use of the cholinesterase inhibitors. Future studies, directed to distinct causal and pathological factors, will be needed to enable therapeutic advances in dementia. Larger, well-controlled treatment studies are required to reach more definitive conclusions about treatment efficacy.

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치매 약물치료 알쯔하이머병 Dementia Pharmacologic treatment Alzheimer's disease