Table 1.
Sex | Age | Duration of ALS (months) | Cause of death | Somatic diseases | Autopsy finding | Concomitant neurological symptoms | PMI (h) | Hemisphere |
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ALS | ||||||||
F | 76 | 21 | Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia | 27 | Right | |||
M | 69 | 22 | Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia | 30 | Right | |||
M | 72 | 20 | Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia | 27 | Right | |||
F | 67 | 33 | Respiratory failure | Thyroid gland adenoma | 6 | Left | ||
F | 75 | 9 | Respiratory failure | Endometrial cancer without recurrence | Dementia | 6 | Left | |
M | 51 | 37 | Respiratory failure | 22 | Right | |||
M | 56 | 38 | Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia | 30 | Left | |||
M | 61 | 20 | Respiratory failure | 28 | Left | |||
Controls | ||||||||
M | 60 | Myocardial infarction | Oesophagus cancer | 12 | Left | |||
M | 66 | Cardiac failure | Colon cancer with liver-metatases | 16 | Left | |||
F | 71 | Oesophageal varices haemorrhage | Cirrhosis | 22 | Left | |||
F | 73 | Myocardial infarction | 26 | Right | ||||
M | 55 | Cardiac failure | Uraemia, haemodialysis (6 months) | 21 | Right | |||
M | 61 | Myocardial infarction | NIDDM, hypertension | 22 | Right | |||
M | 60 | Cardiac failure pulmonary infarction | 27 | Right | ||||
M | 65 | Myocardial infarction | COPD | 32 | Left | |||
F | 77 | Cardiac failure | Mamma cancer with metastases | 33 | Right |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; PMI, post-mortem interval.