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Medial temporal lobe atrophy and APOE genotype do not predict cognitive improvement upon treatment with rivastigmine in Alzheimer's disease patients.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2005
Visser Pieter Jelle, Scheltens Philip, Pelgrim Esther, Verhey Frans R J
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BACKGROUND: Only a subgroup of subjects with probable AD shows cognitive improvement after treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether atrophy of the medial temporal lobe and the apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype could predict cognitive improvement in subjects with probable AD treated with rivastigmine. METHODS: 121 subjects with mild to moderate probable AD were treated for 26...
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