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Washington University Experience | NEURODEGENERATION | Alzheimer Disease | Gross Pathology | 8A0 Case 8 History
Case 8 History ---- The patient’s daughter reported progressive memory and thinking difficulties beginning in 1998 which were worsening over the last year before she was seen. She was forgetting recent events within minutes, repeated herself, and misplaced items. The patient was not seen again and expired in November 2012 at age 87 due to renal failure and pneumonia. A retrospective interview was conducted with the daughter as informant. She endorsed slowly progressive memory problems. The patient was unable to recognize family for the last 7 years and had been nearly mute for the last 5 years. She would talk to herself in the mirror thinking it was a stranger. The patient was bedridden and required full care. The nurse conducting the postmortem interview rated the patient a CDR 3.
