When do you recommend lumbar puncture in patients with concern for memory loss?

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Neurology · University of Minnesota

Rapidly progressive memory loss/dementia- because you obviously want to exclude diagnoses like CJD, infectious/autoimmune/paraneoplastic encephalitis, lymphoma or other malignancy, etc.
When you need to know the patient's "brain amyloid status". E.g. a) Patients with amnestic MCI and atypical cour...