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Rapidly Progressive Dementia (RPD) Review Article Address correspondence to Dr Michael D. Geschwind, University of California, Rapidly Progressive San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, Dementia [email protected]. Relationship Disclosure: Michael D. Geschwind, MD, PhD Dr Geschwind serves on the board of directors for San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility and ABSTRACT serves as a consultant for Advance Medical, Best Purpose of Review: This article presents a practical and informative approach to Doctors Inc, the Franciscan the evaluation of a patient with a rapidly progressive dementia (RPD). Physician Network, the Recent Findings: Prion diseases are the prototypical causes of RPD, but reversible Gerson Lehrman Group Inc, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & causes of RPD might mimic prion disease and should always be considered in a Smith LLP, MEDACorp, and differential diagnosis. Aside from prion diseases, the most common causes of RPD are Quest Diagnostics. Dr atypical presentations of other neurodegenerative disorders, curable disorders includ- Geschwind receives personal compensation as a speaker for ing autoimmune encephalopathies, as well as some infections, and neoplasms. Nu- grand rounds lectures and merous recent case reports suggest dural arterial venous fistulas sometimes cause RPDs. receives research/grant Summary: RPDs, in which patients typically develop dementia over weeks to months, support from Cure PSP, the Michael J. Homer Family require an alternative differential than the slowly progressive dementias that occur over Fund, the National Institute a few years. Because of their rapid decline, patients with RPDs necessitate urgent on Aging, Quest Diagnostics, evaluation and often require an extensive workup, typically with multiple tests being and the Tau Consortium. sent or performed concurrently. Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, perhaps the prototypical Unlabeled Use of Products/Investigational RPD, is often the first diagnosis many neurologists consider when treating a patient Use Disclosure: with rapid cognitive decline. Many conditions other than prion disease, however, Dr Geschwind reports including numerous reversible or curable conditions, can present as an RPD. This chapter no disclosure. * 2016 American Academy discusses some of the major etiologies for RPDs and offers an algorithm for diagnosis. of Neurology. Continuum (Minneap Minn) 2016;22(2):510–537. INTRODUCTION domain with functional impairment) in Neurologists generally are familiar with less than 1 to 2 years, although most the differential diagnoses of slowly pro- occur over weeks to months. This gressive neurodegenerative dementias, article presents some of the major many of which are discussed individ- adult-onset causes of RPDs and pro- ually in this issue of Continuum.The poses some diagnostic algorithms. general approach to a patient with de- mentia is discussed in the article ‘‘The FINDINGS FROM Mental Status Examination in Patients JAKOB-CREUTZFELDT DISEASE With Suspected Dementia’’ by Murray AND RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE Grossman, MD, FAAN, and David J. Irwin, DEMENTIA REFERRAL CENTERS MD,1 in this issue of Continuum,but Perhaps the prototypical RPDs are prion the diagnosis of rapidly progressive de- diseases, such as Jakob-Creutzfeldt dis- mentias (RPDs) entails a different diag- ease, which was covered in detail in the nostic approach. Although there is no article ‘‘Prion Diseases’’ by Michael D. clear definition for the time frame of Geschwind, MD, PhD,2 in the December an RPD, the author typically uses the 2015 Continuum issue and thus is not term to refer to conditions that progress discussed in detail in this article. (As from onset of first symptom to demen- discussed in the December 2015 arti- tia (decline in more than one cognitive cle, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease was 510 www.ContinuumJournal.com April 2016 Copyright © American Academy of Neurology. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. commonly referred to for many decades suspected prion disease cases have as Jakob or Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease been referred to the RPD program and until Clarence J. Gibbs, a prominent dementia clinic at the University of researcher in the field, started using California, San Francisco (UCSF). The the term Creutzfeldt-Jakob.3 However, distribution of diagnoses for these only two of five of Jakob’s cases and referrals through June 1, 2015, is shown not even Creutzfeldt’s case had what in Figure 7-1A.5,6 Of all RPD cases re- we would now consider prion disease. ferredtotheUCSFcenter(Figure 7-1A), Thus, in the author’s opinion, the about one-fourth came in person for disease should be called Jakob or an inpatient or outpatient evaluation Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease,4 which is (Figure 7-1B); for those patients not what this article uses to discuss the evaluated in person, a detailed records disease.) Many patients referred to review was conducted and communi- various national prion referral centers cated with the families, patients, or with suspected Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease their physicians. As a center with ex- turn out not to have prion disease. Over pertise in prion diseases, there is a re- the past 14 years, more than 2500 ferral bias toward these diagnoses. FIGURE 7-1 Major diagnostic categories of patients with rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) referred to, versus evaluated at, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) rapidly progressive dementia program over 13 years. A, Diagnostic distribution of patients with RPD referred to UCSF over about a 13-year period, most of whom had extensive medical record review, but only about one-fourth of whom were evaluated in person at UCSF. Almost one-third of cases referred to (as well as evaluated at) UCSF were diagnosed with sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease. In more than one-fourth of referred cases, although a sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease diagnosis (potential sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease) was suspected, not enough information existed to make a probable Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease diagnosis.5,6 Acquired Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease includes iatrogenic and infectious forms of prion disease. The genetic prion diseases category included patients who had confirmed mutations (autosomal dominant) in the prion protein gene, PRNP, or were from families with genetic prion disease. Whereas many of the genetic prion diseases presented similarly to sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, as an RPD, a significant minority had clinical presentations more similar to other more slowly progressive diseases, such as Alzheimer disease or atypical parkinsonian or ataxic syndromes.2 One-fourth of cases were diagnosed with a nonprion etiology for their RPD. B, Diagnostic distribution of patients with RPD evaluated in person at UCSF. A larger percentage of nonprion RPDs and genetic prion diseases is evident; the latter is a bias partly because of the UCSF research program in genetic prion diseases and antibody-mediated encephalopathies. JCD = Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease. Continuum (Minneap Minn) 2016;22(2):510–537 www.ContinuumJournal.com 511 Copyright © American Academy of Neurology. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. Rapidly Progressive Dementia KEY POINT Y 10 h In most larger rapidly At the UCSF center, the non Jakob- by Deborah L. Renaud, MD, in this issue progressive dementia Creutzfeldt disease/nonYprion disease of Continuum.DespiteCSFpleocytosis series, the most group comprises 25% of all referrals being extremely rare in prion disease, common causes of (both records review or in-person eval- several patients with meningoencepha- rapidly progressive uation) and 44% of those evaluated in litis were referred as suspected Jakob- dementia are nonprion person. Figure 7-1B shows the diag- Creutzfeldt disease; in only a few patients neurodegenerative nostic distribution for the subset of with encephalitis was the agent identi- diseases, prion diseases, referred patients who were evaluated fied (human immunodeficiency virus and autoimmune/ 5 antibody-mediated in person at our center over about the [HIV], Lyme disease, and enterovirus). encephalopathies. past 13 years. Many cases referred for In the German center publication, 34% potential sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt of patients initially suspected of having disease were found to have nonprion Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease by referring diagnoses when evaluated in person at physicians were ultimately found by our center.5 pathology or clinical follow-up to have Table 7-1 shows the types of diag- other diagnoses. Importantly, many pa- noses of nonprion RPDs referred to tients had not only treatable, but po- UCSF, the German Jakob-Creutzfeldt tentially reversible conditions. disease surveillance unit, and the US In the United States, to help monitor National Prion Disease Pathology Sur- for potential new forms of human prion veillance Center (NPDPSC), based on disease, the Centers for Disease Control publications from these three major and Prevention funds the NPDPSC to prion referral centers.7,8 The UCSF perform brain autopsies on all referred cohort was during an approximately suspected prion cases. In an important 8-year period and includes some pre- study, they reviewed 1106 autopsies viously published cases.5 In many cases, performed over about a 10-year period for those in whom prion disease was Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease was sus- not identified (N = 352). Among the pected by the referring physicians. 304 in whom they confirmed another, Overall, the most common nonprion nonprion pathologic diagnosis, 73%
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