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Descriptor English: Dementia
Descriptor Spanish: Demencia
Descriptor demencia
Entry term(s) demencia paranoide senil
Scope note: Trastorno mental orgánico adquirido, con pérdida de la capacidad intelectual que tiene la suficiente gravedad como para interferir en el funcionamiento social u ocupacional. La disfunción es multifacética y afecta a la memoria, conducta, personalidad, juicio, atención, relaciones espaciales, lenguaje, pensamiento abstracto, y otras funciones ejecutivas. La decadencia intelectual suele ser progresiva, e inicialmente se conserva el nivel de conciencia.
Descriptor Portuguese: Demência
Descriptor French: Démence
Entry term(s): Démence familiale
Démence sénile paranoïde
Tree number(s): C10.228.140.380
F03.615.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003704
Scope note: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL sang
CF liquide cérébrospinal
CI induit chimiquement
CL classification
CO complications
DG imagerie diagnostique
DH diétothérapie
DI diagnostic
DT traitement médicamenteux
EC économie
EH ethnologie
EN enzymologie
EP épidémiologie
ET étiologie
GE génétique
HI histoire
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
MO mortalité
NU soins infirmiers
PA anatomopathologie
PC prévention et contrôle
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
PX psychologie
RH rééducation et réadaptation
SU chirurgie
TH thérapie
UR urine
VI virologie
Related: Tauopathies MeSH
DeCS ID: 3718
Unique ID: D003704
NLM Classification: WM 220
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/05/21
Revision Date: 2015/06/30
Démence - Preferred
Concept UI M0005797
Preferred term Démence
Démence sénile paranoïde - Narrower
Concept UI M0334715
Preferred term Démence sénile paranoïde
Démence familiale - Narrower
Concept UI M0334716
Preferred term Démence familiale



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