Research Article

The Impact of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Various Neurodegenerative Dementia Syndromes: A Neuropathological Study

Table 2

Frequency of additional Alzheimer’s pathology (AP), Lewy body pathology (LBP), progressive supranuclear palsy pathology (PSP), and cerebral arteriosclerotic micro-infarcts (CAMIs) in different neurodegenerative dementia diseases according to the grading of the severity amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

ItemsAPLBPCAMIs

Alzheimer’s disease (n = 92)
 CAA
  grade 09%28%
  grade 1-216%11%
  grade 39%18%
Lewy body disease (n = 21)
 CAA
  grade 04I%17%
  grade 1-283%0%
  grade 3100%0%
Progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 24)
 CAA
  grade 014%0%5%
  grade 1-20%0%0%
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (n = 46)
 CAA grade 04%0%0%
Corticobasal degeneration (n = 5)
 CAA grade 00%0%0%
Normal controls (n = 20)
 CAA grade 05%0%0%