Afasia progresiva fluente: ¿Una forma de presentación inicial de demencia semántica?

Abstract

We report a 57-year-old man presenting with progressive fluent aphasia and behaviour disorder, with no visual semantic loss, visual agnosia, lexical agraphia, nor alexia. We include in this report the brain images, and we discuss the borders between fluent progressive aphasia and semantic dementia. We conclude that fluent progressive aphasia may be the first stage of semantic dementia, noting that the neuropathology of progressive fluent aphasia usually corresponds to frontotemporal lobar degeneration, with or without Tau protein inclusions, as in Alzheimer's Disease or corticobasal degeneration. © 2007 Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía.