Table 1.
Sex | Age at onset | Illness duration (years) | STMS at scan | *Diagnosis at the time of Scan | Prominent symptoms up to the time of MRI scan | Symptoms present over entire disease course (+ = present, 0 = absent) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Parkinsonism | Language | Behavior | |||||||
PGRN (−) | |||||||||
1 | F | 64 | 13 | 25 | bvFTD | Personality change, apathy, loss of interest | 0 | 0 | + |
2 | F | 62 | 8 | 34 | bvFTD | Anhedonic, lack of initiative, poor judgment | 0 | 0 | + |
3 | M | 45 | 13 | 26 | bvFTD | Personality change, withdrawn, lack of initiative | 0 | 0 | + |
4 | F | 68 | 3 | NA | CBS | Parkinsonism, L>R limb apraxia | + | 0 | 0 |
5 | F | 64 | 6 | 34 | bvFTD | Changes in behavior and personality | + | 0 | + |
6 | M | 51 | 1 | 30 | bvFTD | Executive dysfunction, decreased personal hygiene, inappropriate laughter, compulsive behaviors | + | + | + |
7 | F | 59 | 7 | 26 | SD | Difficulty with naming of people and objects, and circumlocutions, behavioral changes | 0 | + | + |
8 | F | 77 | 6 | 31 | bvFTD | Personality change, executive dysfunction, & paranoia | 0 | 0 | + |
PGRN (+) | |||||||||
9 | M | 69 | 7 | 28 | bvFTD | Executive dysfunction, loss of attention, & memory loss | + | + | + |
10 | M | 60 | 8 | 31 | bvFTD | Personality change, executive dysfunction & memory loss | + | + | + |
11 | F | 52 | 5 | 23 | bvFTD | Personality change, executive dysfunction, abulia, memory loss, and decrease word output & fluency | + | + | + |
12 | M | 49 | 6 | 27 | CBS | Parkinsonism, L>R limb apraxia | + | + | 0 |
13 | M | 56 | 7 | 34 | bvFTD | Personality change | + | 0 | + |
14χ | F | 56 | 7 | 32 | bvFTD | Personality change, executive dysfunction & memory loss | + | + | + |
15χ | F | 61 | NA | NA | SD | Difficulty with naming of people, places, and things and comprehension problems | 0 | + | 0 |
16 | F | 56 | NA | 22 | bvFTD | Executive dysfunction | + | + | + |
STMS = Short Test of Mental Status Score
Subjects still alive
Using Fishers Exact test p =0.05 for parkinsonism PGRN (−) v PGRN (+) (30% vs. 90%) and P = 0.02 for language (20% vs. 90%) using a one tail test (assuming that the feature would be more frequent in the PGRN (+) group).