Table 3.
Detailed clinical features of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy
Patient | Age at onset (years) | Age at death (years) | NINDS-SPSP criteria during life | Frontal presentation | Family history | Relevant medication in the last 3 months of life | Brain weight (g) | Tau pathology area 24' | Tau pathology caudate |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1a | 71 | 73 | Probable | Nonfrontal | Negative | Clonazepam, temazepam, piracetam | 1398 | Grade 3 | Grade 2 |
2 | 66 | 76 | Probable | Frontal | Negative | Oxybutynin, acetylcysteine, thiopental, pancuronium | 1060 | Grade 3 | Grade 2 |
3 | 63 | 68 | Probable | Nonfrontal | Positive | Temazepam, oxybutynin | 1405 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 |
4 | 70 | 79 | Possible | Frontal | Positive | Tolterodine | 1069 | Grade 2 | Grade 2 |
5 | 51 | 60 | Probable | Frontal | Negative | Temazepam | 1256 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 |
6a | 74 | 80 | Possible | Nonfrontal | Negative | Thiopental, pancuronium | 1100 | Grade 2 | Grade 1 |
7 | 66 | 75 | Possible | Frontal | Negative | Levomeprazine | 1253 | Grade 3 | Grade 1 |
8 | 54 | 64 | Possible | Frontal | Positive | Amantadine | 1290 | Grade 3 | Grade 1 |
9 | 79 | 85 | Possible | Nonfrontal | Negative | Oxazepam, nitrazepam, acetylcysteine | 1175 | Grade 2 | Grade 2 |
10 | 68 | 79 | Probable | Nonfrontal | Negative | Amitriptyline | 922 | Grade 2 | Grade 1 |
11 | 60 | 72 | Possible | Nonfrontal | Positive | Levodopa/carbidopa, amitriptyline | 1045 | Grade 2 | Grade 2 |
12 | 60 | 67 | Probable | Frontal | Positive | Levodopa/carbidopa, lormetazepam, nortriptyline | 1013 | Grade 4 | Grade 2 |
13 | 62 | 70 | Probable | Nonfrontal | Negative | Amantadine, temazepam, diazepam, amitriptyline | 1160 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 |
14a | 79 | 85 | Possible | Nonfrontal | Negative | Alprazolam, tamsulosin, thiopental, pancuronium | 1305 | Grade 3 | Grade 3 |
15 | 67 | 72 | Possible | Nonfrontal | Positive | Levodopa/carbidopa | 1525 | Grade 2 | Grade 4 |
16 | 61 | 69 | Probable | Frontal | Positive | Midazolam, clozapine | 1270 | Grade 3 | Grade 3 |
NINDS-SPSP National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
aPatients who underwent euthanasia by sodium thiopental and pancuronium bromide