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MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 1439-1446Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mds.27125
Keywords
parkinsonism; Lewy Bodies; supranuclear palsy; population-based incidence cohort
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG034676] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [U01 NS100620] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the discrepancies between the clinical diagnosis of parkinsonism and neuropathological findings in a population-based cohort with parkinsonian disorders. Background: The specific clinical diagnosis of parkinsonism is challenging, and definite confirmation requires neuropathological evaluation. Currently, autopsies are seldom performed, and most brain autopsies represent atypical or diagnostically unresolved cases. Methods: We used a defined population-based incidence cohort with clinical parkinsonism (n = 669) from the Rochester Epidemiology Project in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1991-2010. We reviewed reports of all patients who underwent neuropathologic examination at autopsy (n = 60; 9%) and applied consensus pathologic guidelines for neurodegenerative disease diagnosis. Results: Among the 60 patients examined pathologically, the median time from the last recorded clinical diagnosis to death was 7 years (range from 2 to 17 years). Clinical-pathological concordance was found in 52 cases (86.7%), whereas 8 (13.3%) had a clinical-pathological discrepancy. Four patients with a clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease had no pathological evidence of Lewy bodies or alpha-synucleinopathy; of these, pathological diagnoses were Alzheimer's disease (2 cases), progressive supranuclear palsy (1 case), and vascular parkinsonism (1 case). Two patients with clinical diagnoses of dementia with Lewy bodies and one patient with an unspecified parkinsonism had a pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease without concomitant alpha-synuclein lesions. One patient with clinically diagnosed progressive supranuclear palsy had indeterminate pathological findings without alpha-synuclein or A beta- or tau-immunoreactive lesions at autopsy. Conclusions: Overall, the clinical diagnoses of parkinsonian subtypes had good concordance with pathological confirmation (86.7%). However, clinical-pathological discrepancies were documented in 13.3%. (c) 2017 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
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