DEMENTIA-REVERSIBLE CAUSES

SUMMARY

1. Medications/drugs
2. Vitamin B12 deficiency (may have associated polyneuropathy/myelopathy)
3. Heavy metal poisoning (arsenic, mercury, and lead)
4. Hypothyroidism
5. DM
6. CSDH (especially in alcoholics, in patients on anticoagulants, and in elderly patients with a history of falls)
7. NPH
8. Tumors, especially involving the frontal lobes
9. Infection and inflammation: AIDS, neurosyphilis, neurosarcoidosis, chronic meningitis, lupus cerebritis, vasculitis

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