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We present the case of a patient aged 38 years with Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia (CPEO), a slowly progressive myopathy primarily involving and often limited to the extraocular muscles. Medical history, clinical examination and laboratory studies are revealed. The implicated gene mutations and differential diagnosis are approached.

Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects mainly the elderly people, was declared a public health priority by the World Health Organization. Because the main clinical manifestations are cognitive, behavioral and psychological symptoms, patients diagnosed with this disease have a significantly lower quality of life. This type of dementia has an inexorably progressive evolution so, families and health care staff, must make great efforts to provide a decent standard of living for these patients. Because it has a huge economic burden and there is no treatment to stop or cure the disease, it is important to emphasises modifiable risk factors and to apply prevention strategies, proved by scientific evidence.