Enfermedad de Alzhéimer e Implicaciones Diagnósticas Futuras

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a type of dementia characterized by progressive cognitive and neurophysiological deterioration, whit a high incidence today, due to the number of people who suffer from it
worldwide, the exponential projection, and the high cost in palliative treatments to patients and care
of psychological illnesses to caregivers for the conse quences caused. Although in Colombia there is an
infrequent variant of Ad known as frontotemporal dementia in Young people, the pathological focus of
AD is the elderly, who therefore present delicate concomitant clinical symptoms. Although it is a know
disease some time ago and its advances regarding pathology have increased, obtaining biomarkers,
knowing the importance of some proteins and the geenetic factor have been of great help in the development of AD, to date they are known few advances in early detection, treatments fot this and a posible
cure, regarding the speed with which the disease progresses after the appearance of its firt symptoms.
Keywords: alzheimer’s disease; cognitive; impairment; dementia; neurodegenerative