Primary Progressive Aphasia in Neurological Practice
摘要
This article presents the epidemiology of stroke and dementia based on data from the Moscow region, the Russian Federation, Western Europe, and the USA. A brief review of the literature on primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is provided and the diagnostic criteria and main variants of the disease are described. Two clinical observations are presented: a patient with an agrammatic form of PPA and a patient with post-stroke aphasia. Results from studies of routine MRI, functional MRI with a speech paradigm, and diffusion tensor imaging with tractography are presented and the main differences in the clinical picture and MRI investigation results in cases with a similar clinical picture of motor aphasia caused by a neurodegenerative process and developing as a result of stroke are analyzed. Additional tests for early detection of the agrammatic form of PPA are given.