INTRODUCTION:

Dementias are a group of neurocognitive disorders, and in people under 65 years of age, frontotemporal dementia stands out, a heterogeneous neurodegenerative syndrome that has two major variants: behavioral and primary progressive aphasia. In the latter, three variants are described: non-fluent, semantic and logopenic, which require up-to-date knowledge in practice for their differentiation and understanding. The objective is to carry out a narrative review on the three clinical variants of primary progressive aphasia, delving into diagnosis, evolution, imaging characteristics and management.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Narrative review article based on the state of the art in biomedical literature on frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia and its variants.

RESULTS:

The compromise of language and other cognitive functions, as well as the imaging findings, are heterogeneous in the three variants. Semiologically, non-fluent progressive primary aphasia is characterized by apraxia of speech, the logopenic variant by failures in the nomination and the semantic variant by failures in the meaning of the message. Imaging involvement in non-fluent progressive primary aphasia is mainly frontoinsular and cortico-subcortical; in the semantic variant it is usually temporary on the dominant side; and in the logopenic variant, temporo-parietal alterations prevail. There is no specific treatment, but some pharmacological options can be linked with language rehabilitation processes / techniques.

CONCLUSION:

although Frontotemporal dementia is an heterogenous disorder, there are important clinical and imagenologic features that are useful to the diagnostic approach in the clinical field.

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