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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2016 Apr;22(2 DEMENTIA):510–537. doi: 10.1212/CON.0000000000000319

TABLE 7-2.

Causes of Rapidly Progressive Dementia in Two European Tertiary Care Hospitals

Athens Cohort11 Diagnoses
(N = 68)		 % Barcelona Cohort12 Diagnoses
(N = 49)		 %
Alzheimer disease 17.6 Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease 30.6
Other secondary dementias 17.6 Other secondary dementias 18.4
Frontotemporal dementia 16.2 Alzheimer disease 14.3
Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease 13.2 Frontotemporal dementia 12.2
Vascular dementia 13.2 Dementia with Lewy bodies 10.2
Dementia with Lewy bodies 5.9 Vascular dementia 8.2
Normal pressure hydrocephalus 5.9 Unknown 6.1
Multiple system atrophy 2.9 Total 100
Neurosyphilis 2.9
Other neurodegenerative
dementias		 4.4
Total 100