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Alzheimers care and treatments: Consult with Mayo Clinic?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Nov 21 10:32pm | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
This article about mistaking hepatic encephalopathy as Alzheimer’s is interesting, @japlok and such good news to see science is refining the scope of disease.
What particularly struck you about this article? Do you know if this has been ruled out with your wife?
By the way, I read your comment above about switching injections to a hospital considerably closer to you and your wife. I am curious how this came about.
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@jlharsh Hi Janelle, yes, interesting article. The thing I wonder about is how old is this information, are doctor's aware of this, and if so why isn't this talked/written about more. Now what concerns me is why this is not a required test for those diagnosed with dementia/AD.
My wife has a regular PCP appointment in a couple of weeks and I was going to make sure she requested the liver screening, but as I write this there is no reason to wait that long. We will be contacting our doctor on Monday.
At the time the infusions started Indianapolis was the closet location. They have since opened additional locations to get infusions, and one was at the same hospital we see our PCP just 10 minutes away. We asked if Diana's infusions could be done there and everything worked out.