2023 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 31-36
Our hospital was certified as the Hokkaido dementia disease medical center in 2014, and a neurosurgeon is in charge. In this study, we examined the difference in consultation status between our center by neurosurgeons and the center by psychiatrists. Differential diagnosis of dementia was performed on 248
patients who first visited our hospital from April, 2020 to March, 2021. The diagnostic categories were as follows: normal 5%, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) 37%, Alzheimer type dementia (ATD) 26%, mixed dementia 10%, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) 8%, vascular dementia (VaD) 6%, frontotemporal dementia1%, and others 13%. In conclusion, MCI was more common than ATD at the neurosurgeon's center, and patients were seen at an early stage of memory disturbance. In addition, there was a tendency for mixed types of VaD and ATD to be common.
