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To: Osage Orange

So do doctors always misdiagnose lewy bodies as parkinsons?


25 posted on 10/02/2016 9:54:48 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You know the depths of my heart, and You love me the same...)
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To: Vision Thing
So do doctors always misdiagnose lewy bodies as parkinsons?

I get the impression that Lewy Body disease, like Alzheimer's, can only be truly diagnosed through an autopsy. Plus it's comparatively rare disorder. So it's probably misdiagnosed more often than correctly.

54 posted on 10/03/2016 5:27:24 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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The simple answer...

Is, no.

63 posted on 10/03/2016 8:18:21 AM PDT by Osage Orange (PNA....my butt)
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