The new diagnostic criteria to find Alzheimer’s
cases were presented early of this week at an international Alzheimer’s
conference which was conducted in Hawaii. The new diagnostic criteria were
presented because there is detection that Alzheimer is not merely identified by
the memory loss. The dissease could have peeped years before the memory loss is
got by an Alzheimer’s patient.
The change of diagnosizing the Alzheimer is
changed after 25 years. And this kind of diagnostic is believed more accurate
and would be hoped to cure more that kind of disease early when a patient get
the sign of Alzheimer. This kind of new diagnostic process is more accurate
though the only drawback is that more money is needed to run the diagnostic
process.
According to the new diagnostic process in
finding the long symptom of Alzheimer, the National Institute on Aging and the
Alzheimer’s Association in the US draft that this disease has three stages. The
first stage is called as preclinical Alzheimer, mild cognitive impairement due
to Alzheimer, and Alzheimer’s dementia.
The current method which is used to diagnose
Alzheimer is by concentrating on memory loss assesment and to reduces of a
patient’s ability to do his/her daily activities. According to the tests
of neuropsychological, those diagnostic is not precise.
The new method is presented by taking PET or MRI
scans to a person who has high risk of being attached by Alzheimer, though the
person has had no any memory problems. The other method is by sampling the
patient’s spinal fluid with mild cognitive impairement. That is as an effort to
make prediction the person who has potentiality to be attacked by that disease.
