eprintid: 10173801
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creators_name: Young, Keir
creators_name: Hardy, Chris
creators_name: Petzold, Axel
creators_name: Crutch, Sebastian
title: Posterior cortical atrophy: an overview for optometrists
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D07
divisions: F84
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
abstract: Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome that is characterised by a progressive decline in visuospatial and visuospatial skills1,2. Precise estimates of the prevalence and incidence of PCA are difficult to determine; this largely owes to an under-recognition of the PCA syndrome, misdiagnosis, and certain inconsistencies in the application of clinical and research criteria for PCA. Estimates to date have been based on specialist dementia and memory clinics, which include reports of between 8-13% of patients as having predominant visual disturbances in addition to nonvisual symptoms characteristically associated with PCA, such as difficulties with writing, calculation, spelling, handwriting and praxis skills3,4.  All of this leads easily to misinterpretation of routine ophthalmological investigations using automated static perimetry, crowded Snellen letter or Ishihara colour charts.
date: 2022-06-16
date_type: published
publisher: The College of Optometrists
official_url: https://www.college-optometrists.org/professional-development/college-journals/optometry-in-practice/all-oip-articles/volume-23,-issue-2/posterior-cortical-atrophy-an-overview-for-optomet
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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medium: web
lyricists_name: Petzold, Axel
lyricists_id: APETZ95
actors_name: Petzold, Axel
actors_id: APETZ95
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Optometry in Practice
volume: 23
number: 2
pagerange: 1-11
citation:        Young, Keir;    Hardy, Chris;    Petzold, Axel;    Crutch, Sebastian;      (2022)    Posterior cortical atrophy: an overview for optometrists.                   Optometry in Practice , 23  (2)   pp. 1-11.          Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173801/1/PCA_OptometryInPractice_accepted_version.pdf