PAULO CARAMELLI
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LIM/45 - Laboratório de Fisiopatologia Neurocirúrgica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Predicting Dementia Due to Alzheimer's Disease and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Using Algorithms with the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised Subscores Combined with Sociodemographic Factors(2023) AMARAL-CARVALHO, Viviane; LIMA-SILVA, Thais Bento; MARIANO, Luciano Inacio; SOUZA, Leonardo Cruz de; GUIMARAES, Henrique Cerqueira; BAHIA, Valeria Santoro; NITRINI, Ricardo; BARBOSA, Maira Tonidandel; YASSUDA, Monica Sanches; CARAMELLI, PauloBackground: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) are important causes of dementia with challenging differential diagnoses in many cases. Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) is a cognitive battery that may be useful to differentiate the two disorders.Objective: The objectibe of this study is to investigate the value of the ACE-R combined with sociodemographic factors in the differential diagnosis between AD and bvFTD.Methods The ACE-R was administered to 102 patients with mild dementia due to probable AD, 37 with mild bvFTD, and 135 controls. Performances of patients and controls were analyzed by logistic regression and by ROC curves to refine the diagnostic accuracy of the ACE-R in AD and bvFTD.Results: The ACE-R subscores Attention and Orientation, Fluency, and Memory, in combination with schooling differentiated AD from controls with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.936 (86% sensitivity and 87% specificity). The ACE-R subscores Attention and Orientation, Fluency, and Language, in combination with sex (male), age, and schooling, discriminated bvFTD from controls with an AUC of 0.908 (81% sensitivity and 95% specificity). In the differentiation between AD and bvFTD, the ACE-R subscores Attention and Orientation, Fluency, and Language, together with age, displayed an AUC of 0.865 (78% sensitivity and 85% specificity).Conclusion: The combination of ACE-R scores with sociodemographic data allowed good differentiation between AD and bvFTD in the study sample.
bookPart Escala de avaliação da qualidade de vida na Doença de Alzheimer (QDV-DA)(2016) NOVELLI, Marcia Maria Pires Camargo; CARAMELLI, PauloconferenceObject Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validity of the Brazilian version of the Clinical staging scale and disease progression in frontotemporal dementia(2016) SILVA, T. Bento Lima da; BAHIA, V.; CECCHINI, M. Amore; CASSIMIRO, L.; CARVALHO, V. Amaral; GUIMARAES, H. Cerqueira; CARAMELLI, P.; BALTHAZAR, M.; DAMASCENO, B.; BOTTINO, C.; BRUCKI, S.; SOUZA, L. Cruz de; MIOSHI, E.; NITRINI, R.; YASSUDA, M.- Brazilian Version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised in the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer'S Disease and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia(2022) AMARAL-CARVALHO, Viviane; LIMA-SILVA, Thais Bento; MARIANO, Luciano Inacio; SOUZA, Leonardo Cruz de; GUIMARAES, Henrique Cerqueira; BAHIA, Valeria Santoro; NITRINI, Ricardo; BARBOSA, Maira Tonidandel; YASSUDA, Monica Sanches; CARAMELLI, PauloIntroduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) are frequent causes of dementia and, therefore, instruments for differential diagnosis between these two conditions are of great relevance. Objective To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) for differentiating AD from bvFTD in a Brazilian sample. Methods The ACE-R was administered to 102 patients who had been diagnosed with mild dementia due to probable AD, 37 with mild bvFTD and 161 cognitively healthy controls, matched according to age and education. Additionally, all subjects were assessed using the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory. The performance of patients and controls was compared by using univariate analysis, and ROC curves were calculated to investigate the accuracy of ACE-R for differentiating AD from bvFTD and for differentiating AD and bvFTD from controls. The verbal fluency plus language to orientation plus name and address delayed recall memory (VLOM) ratio was also calculated. Results The optimum cutoff scores for ACE-R were <80 for AD, <79 for bvFTD, and <80 for dementia (AD + bvFTD), with area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) (AUC) >0.85. For the differential diagnosis between AD and bvFTD, a VLOM ratio of 3.05 showed an AUC of 0.816 (Cohen's d = 1.151; p < .001), with 86.5% sensitivity, 71.4% specificity, 72.7% positive predictive value, and 85.7% negative predictive value. Conclusions The Brazilian ACE-R achieved a good diagnostic accuracy for differentiating AD from bvFTD patients and for differentiating AD and bvFTD from the controls in the present sample.
- Normative Data for Healthy Middle-Aged and Elderly Performance on the Addenbrooke Cognitive Examination-Revised(2012) AMARAL-CARVALHO, Viviane; CARAMELLI, PauloObjective: To provide normative data for healthy middle-aged and elderly Brazilians' performance on the Addenbrooke Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) and to investigate the effects of age, sex, and schooling on test performance. Background: The ACE-R is a brief cognitive battery that assesses various aspects of cognition. Its 5 subdomains (Attention and Orientation, Memory, Verbal Fluency, Language, and Visuospatial Abilities) are commonly impaired in Alzheimer disease or frontotemporal dementia. Methods: We evaluated 144 cognitively healthy volunteers (50% men, 50% women) aged 50 to 93 years, with 4 to 24 years of schooling. We divided the participants into 4 age groups, each of which was then stratified into 3 groups according to years of education. We assessed all participants with the ACE-R, the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia. Results: Years of education affected all ACE-R subscores. Age influenced the Verbal Fluency subscore (P < 0.001) and the ACE-R total score (P < 0.05). Sex affected the Attention and Orientation (P = 0.037) and Mini-Mental State Examination subscores (P = 0.048), but not the ACE-R total score (P > 0.05). Conclusions: The performance of healthy middle-aged and elderly individuals on the ACE-R battery is strongly influenced by education and, to a lesser extent, by age. These findings are of special relevance in countries with populations that have marked heterogeneity in educational levels.
- The (in)visible Brazilians: A perspective review on the need for brain health and dementia research with Brazilian immigrants in the United States ( vol 9, e12425, 2023)(2023) SIMON, Sharon Sanz; BRUCKI, Sonia Maria Dozzi; FONSECA, Luciana Mascarenhas; BECKER, Jacqueline; CAPPI, Carolina; MARQUES, Andrea Horvath; HEYN, Patricia C.; GONCALVES, Priscila Dib; MARTINS, Silvia S.; BUSATTO, Geraldo; BERTOLA, Laiss; SUEMOTO, Claudia Kimie; NITRINI, Ricardo; CARAMELLI, Paulo; YASSUDA, Monica Sanches; MIOTTO, Eliane Correa; GRINBERG, Lea Tenenholz; RENTERIA, Miguel Arce; ALEGRIA, Margarita; STERN, Yaakov; RIVERA-MINDT, Monica