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dialysis dementia

an aluminum-induced brain disease affecting patients undergoing long-term dialysis. Major symptoms are progressive mental deterioration, personality changes, and speech impairment, with such neurological signs as seizures, dysarthria, dysnomia (difficulty in naming objects), and dyspraxia.

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