Avaliação cognitiva de pacientes com glaucoma e sua comparação com indivíduos com demência de Alzheimer

• Autor(a) principal: Maurano, Stephanie Toledo Piza
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5652
• topic: Cognição; Glaucoma; Demência de Alzheimer; Cognition; Glaucoma; Alzheimer’s disease; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

This study aimed to evaluate the cognitive performance of patients with glaucoma and compare it to people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Glaucoma patients, AD and control group (healthy elderly) were assessed using the MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination) and the subtests verbal fluency, word list memory, delayed recall of the word list, word list recognition test Boston naming test and construction praxis from CERAD (Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease). The results of each test were compared between the groups. One hundred and twelve patients were evaluated, 50 healthy elderly with a mean age of 71.2 ± 5.2 years; 41 patients with glaucoma (72.2 ± 4.4 years) and 21 patients with AD (79.0 ± 7.6 years). AD patients had, on average, advanced disease. Noted a reduction in the cognitive assessment tests in all evaluated, both for patients with glaucoma, and for those with AD compared with controls (p <0.001 for all). When the results from patients with glaucoma and AD were paired, it was noted that the AD patients had lower cognitive function (p <0.001), except for the tests CERAD Boston (p = 0.1) and praxis (p = 0.6). Glaucoma patients, however, presented results of cognitive tests similar to those described for patients with mild AD, including lower values for MMSE (21.9 ± 3.7), Boston (10.6 ± 2.6) and praxis (5.9 ± 2.3).