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NEUROLOGY
Volume 95, Issue 2, Pages E155-E165Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009763
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- NIH [P50-AG16574, U01-NS100620]
- Mangurian Foundation for Lewy body disease research
- Little Family Foundation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Turner Foundation
- Robert H. and Clarice Smith and Abigail van Buren Alzheimer Disease Research Program
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Objective To determine whether Lewy body disease subgroups have different clinical profiles. Methods Participants had dementia, autopsy-confirmed transitional or diffuse Lewy body disease (TLBD or DLBD) (n = 244), or Alzheimer disease (AD) (n = 210), and were seen at least twice (mean follow-up 6.2 +/- 3.8 years). TLBD and DLBD groups were partitioned based on the presence or absence of neocortical neurofibrillary tangles using Braak staging. Four Lewy body disease subgroups and AD were compared on clinical features, dementia trajectory, and onset latency of probable dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) or a DLB syndrome defined as probable DLB or dementia with one core feature of parkinsonism or probable REM sleep behavior disorder. Results In TLBD and DLBD without neocortical tangles, diagnostic sensitivity was strong for probable DLB (87% TLBD, 96% DLBD) and the DLB syndrome (97% TLBD, 98% DLBD) with median latencies <1 year from cognitive onset, and worse baseline attention-visual processing but better memory-naming scores than AD. In DLBD with neocortical tangles, diagnostic sensitivity was 70% for probable DLB and 77% for the DLB syndrome with respective median latencies of 3.7 years and 2.7 years from cognitive onset, each associated with tangle distribution. This group had worse baseline attention-visual processing than AD, but comparable memory-naming impairment. TLBD with neocortical tangles had 48% diagnostic sensitivity for probable DLB and 52% for the DLB syndrome, with median latencies >6 years from cognitive onset, and were cognitively similar to AD. Dementia trajectory was slowest for TLBD without neocortical tangles, and fastest for DLBD with neocortical tangles. Conclusions The phenotypic expression of DLB was associated with the distribution of alpha-synuclein and tau pathology.
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