The patient began to lose short-term memory and no longer know how to read. It is a unique clinical case in the world.
It is a disease that usually affects older people. However, a 19-year-old Chinese man was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
It all starts when the patient, still a teenager, loses his memory and has difficulty concentrating. Little by little he can no longer find some of his belongings and he no longer knows what he has just eaten. His ability to read is also deteriorating, report our colleagues from South West. With no family history or history of degenerative or psychiatric illnesses, his case was then treated at the Beijing hospital.
Never had such a young patient been diagnosed
However, following genetic analyzes, the young man does not present the APOE4 gene, the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. However, the verbal and auditory learning tests which make it possible to evaluate short and long-term memory prove that he suffers from many problems on this level. Science and Future. A complementary long-term diagnosis must therefore be carried out. According to the neurologists who treated him at Xuanwu University Hospital, he was the earliest known case in the world.