Abstract

More than half of neurodegenerative disease patients have multiple pathologies at autopsy; however, most receive one diagnosis during life. We used the a-synuclein seed amplification assay (aSyn-SAA) and CSF biomarkers for amyloidosis and Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathological change (ADNC) to determine the frequency of co-pathologies in participants clinically diagnosed with Lewy body (LB) disease or AD.Using receiver operating characteristic analyses on retrospective CSF samples from 150 participants determined aSyn-SAA accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for identifying clinically defined LB disease and predicting future change in clinical diagnosis. CSF biomarkers helped determine the frequency of concomitant Lewy body pathology, ADNC, and/or amyloidosis in participants with LB disease and AD, across clinical spectra.Following a decade-long follow-up, the clinically or autopsy-defined diagnosis changed for nine participants. aSyn-SAA demonstrated improved accuracy (91.3%), sensitivity (89.3%), and specificity (93.3%) for identifying LB disease compared to all non-LB disease, highlighting the limitations of clinical diagnosis alone. When examining biomarkers of co-pathology, amyloidosis was present in 18%, 48%, and 71% (?2 (2)?=?13.56, p?=?0.001) and AD biomarkers were present in 0%, 8.7%, and 42.9% (?2 (2)?=?18.44, p?

View details for DOI 10.1002/acn3.52034

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