What is it about?
Delirium core symptoms overshadow the dementia phenotype when comorbid. Mild disturbances of delirium core domain symptoms are highly suggestive of SSD.
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Why is it important?
Subsyndromal delirium complicates diagnosis of delirium and dementia, although there is little research comparing their symptom profiles.
Perspectives
Both delirium and subsyndromal delirium are common in elderly patients in acute and nursing home settings where dementia is commonly comorbid, and both populations have discernible subsyndromal delirium that is worthy of being detected and distinguished from dementia.
Professor JOSE G FRANCO
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
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This page is a summary of: Subsyndromal delirium compared with delirium, dementia, and subjects without delirium or dementia in elderly general hospital admissions and nursing home residents, Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring, January 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.dadm.2016.11.002.
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