A Case of Dementia with Lewy Bodies with Pure Agraphia for Kanji (Japanese Morphograms).

A Case of Dementia with Lewy Bodies with Pure Agraphia for Kanji (Japanese Morphograms). Intern Med. 2020 Aug 12;: Authors: Nishida H, Hayashi Y, Kobayashi M, Sakurai T Abstract A 70-year-old dextral woman was admitted to a hospital with agraphia for kanji (Japanese morphograms). She had a history of severe constipation, nightmares, and visual hallucinations. Neurological examinations revealed no obvious Parkinson's disease symptoms. She showed poor skills in writing the kanji for looking at picture objects, [e.g. writing the Japanese word "inu" (which means dog) when she saw a drawing of a dog] or dictated words. A reduced striatal uptake of FP-CIT on single-photon-emission computed tomography and reduced MIBG cardiac uptake on myocardial scintigraphy were detected. The accumulation of amyloid beta in the bilateral cerebral cortices was observed on amyloid-positron emission tomography. We herein report a case of Lewy body dementia with pure agraphia for kanji with underlying Alzheimer's disease pathology. PMID: 32788534 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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