Common Indicators Of McLeod Syndrome

Late-Onset Dementia

Late-onset dementia is a cognitive disease that occurs in individuals who are sixty-five years old or older. This disease can be a symptom of McLeod syndrome due to the effects the disorder has on the patient's brain and nerves. This type of dementia can cause the individual to have memory loss and problems processing new information or learning. This disease also causes the patient to have a reduced ability to manage everyday responsibilities, activities, and tasks on their own. Dementia also compromises an individual's ability to mentally reason and socialize with others normally. Dementia patients lose their ability to communicate effectively with others, first through language and later through gestures. They also have progressive difficulty with visual perception. The symptom of late-onset dementia occurs when the patient's McLeod syndrome has reached its advanced stages. While the exact mechanism is not clear, the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain that cause late-onset dementia is closely related to the affected individual's absence of the XK protein.