Question 46 (part 2) · LEK · Dementia with Lewy bodies
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are drugs of choice in the treatment of:
- A. frontotemporal dementia.
- B. central pontine myelinolysis.
- C. dementia with Lewy bodies.
- D. Fahr syndrome.
- E. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Hint
Choose the dementia with a marked cholinergic deficit, fluctuating cognition and visual hallucinations.
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