Frontotemporal dementia

Orpha code: 282OMIM code: 607485

Definition

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) comprises a group of neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by progressive changes in behavior, executive dysfunction and language impairment, as a result of degeneration of the medial prefrontal and frontoinsular cortices. Four clinical subtypes have been identified: semantic dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, behavioral variant FTD and right temporal lobar atrophy (see these terms).

Disease data
Classification

Clinical group

Synonyms
FTD
FTD
ORPHA code
282
OMIM code
607485
ICD10 code
G31.0
ICD11 code
6D83

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