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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Histopathology. 2017 Nov 22;72(3):433–440. doi: 10.1111/his.13345

Table 2.

Neuropathological diagnoses for general UW autopsy cases undergoing NIA-AA condensed protocol. AD-Alzheimer disease; CAA-cerebral amyloid angiopathy; PART-primary age-related tauopathy; LBD-Lewy body disease; NFT-neurofibrillary tangle.

Diagnosis Ranking Number of cases (n out of
73)
AD None n=5 (7%)
Low n=7 (10%)
Intermediate n=11 (15%)
High n=4 (5%)

CAA n=11 (15%)

PART n=15 (21%)

LBD Brainstem-predominant n=6 (8%)
Limbic (Transitional) n=2 (3%)
Neocortical (Diffuse) n=1 (1%)
Amygdala-predominant n=2 (3%)

NFT only dementia n=1 (1%)

Microvascular injury n=3 (4%)

Hippocampal sclerosis n=1 (1%)

Cases with ≥2 pathologies n=14 (19%)