Different clinical presentations and imaging findings of 3 subtypes, agrammatic, semantic and logopenic, are presented. Underlying neuropathology, medical and social management aspects of these patients are reviewed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Vietnamese

  We describe a case of primary progressive aphasia in a Vietnamese man with corresponding changes on positron emission tomography. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Postural Instability

  At age 64, he developed non-fluent aphasia that progressed slowly over 8 years, eventually associated with behavioral abnormality, postural instability, and dysphagia at 2 years prior to his death. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Brain MRI and FDG-PET/CT were performed as initial imaging workup. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Language treatment shows promise as a means of addressing these difficulties but much remains to be learned with regard to the potential value of treatment across variants and stages of the disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

These varying factors should be taken into account when considering prognosis, disease management, and selection of outcome measures for interventions. © 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

What is the prognosis for people with PPA? This is a difficult question to answer as there has been very little research into it and it can be extremely variable from person to person. [raredementiasupport.org]

“That will help us with prognosis and telling family members what will happen next,” she says. The semantic variant, for example, sometimes leads to agitation and other behavioral changes. There’s no cure for PPA, but research is underway. [theatlantic.com]

Mika Otsuki, Symptoms and prognosis of PNFA / nfvPPA, Higher Brain Function Research, 35, 3, (297), (2015). Pirada Witoonpanich, Sebastian J. Crutch, Jason D. Warren and Martin N. [dx.doi.org]

Progression and prognosis As in Alzheimer disease, researchers of APP refer to a preclinical, prodromal phase that may be called ‘mild aphasic cognitive impairment’. However, the usefulness of this distinction is not clear. [elsevier.es]

Improved reliability of diagnoses will be increasingly important as trials for etiology-specific treatments become available. We also discuss the implications of these syndromes for theories of language function. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

PPA is not due to neoplastic, vascular, or metabolic etiologies nor to infectious disease (Mesulam, 2001; Rogers, 2004). Return to Glossary [asha.org]

This review of the literature aims to characterize the speech and language impairment, cognition, neuroimaging, pathology, genetics, and epidemiology associated with each of these variants. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

There have been no large epidemiological studies on the incidence and prevalence of the PPA variants. [en.wikipedia.org]

Development We reviewed the main aspects of PPA epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, aetiology and treatment. Most cases manifest sporadically and the typical age of onset is between 50 and 70 years. [elsevier.es]

Epidemiology and genetics of the frontotemporal dementia/Pick’s disease. Annals of Neurology, 54 (5), 29-31. Diehl-Schmid, J., Schmidt, E.M., Nunnemann, S., Riedl, L., Kurz, A., Förstl, H., Wagenpfeil, S., & Cramer, B. (2013). [revista.infad.eu]

These results may provide insight into the basic pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying PPA and related forms of dementia and suggest the existence of novel, rapidly reversible, TNF-mediated pathophysiologic mechanisms in both PPA and Alzheimer's disease [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Author information 1 Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. 2 The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ. 3 NU Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Preventive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

This, experts say, is because there is no way of repairing or preventing the ongoing injury to the brain. [express.co.uk]

Although there is no medical treatment for PPA, often people will take preventative medications for Alzheimer’s as it is commonly the underlying cause of PPA. [constanttherapy.com]

[…] developing better and more effective language interventions in neurodegenerative diseases and understanding how these interventions work at the neuronal level is particularly important since it may inform us on how to develop better interventions to prevent [scienceoflearning.jhu.edu]

Significance : This study may lead to the identification of the chromosome(s) responsible for a genetically determined language disorder, providing a target for interventions to prevent this disorder. [dana.org]