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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 11.
Published in final edited form as: Amyloid. 2018 Jul 11;25(2):120–128. doi: 10.1080/13506129.2018.1479249

Table 1.

Demographic, clinical and laboratorial characteristics of the CSF study patients/samples

Hereditary ATTRV30M – ‘Tafamidis Group’ (n = 5) Hereditary ATTRV30M – ‘No Tafamidis Group’ (n=4) Non-ATTR controls (n=3)
Patient Age (mean ± s.d., max, min) 35.4 ± 4.1 years (max 41.7, min 29.2) 45.2 ± 4.8 years (max 48.8, min 37.0) 28.6 ± 4.1 years (max 34.2, min 24.4)
Gender Female: n=4, Male: n=1 Female: n=4 Female: n=3
Age of disease onset (mean ± s.d., max, min) 28.0 ± 4.4 years (max 36.3, min 25.1) 32.8 ± 2.0 years (max 35.0, min 30.2) na
Disease duration (mean ± s.d., max, min) 7.4 ± 2.4 years (max 10.3, min 4.0) 11.2 ± 5.7* years (max 17.6, min 3.7) na
ATTRV30M Specific Treatment Description Tafamidis 20mg per day orally Liver Transplant: n=2
No Treatment: n=2
na
Treatment duration (mean ± s.d., max, min) 5.7 ± 2.4 years (max 9.2, min 2.6) 11.8 ± 1.5# years (max 13.4, min 10.3) na
CNS manifestations Migraine/Headache: n=4
Transitory Neurologic Episodes, with confirmed TTR-Amyloid Angiopathy: n=1
Migraine/Headache: n=2
Subjective cognitive complaints: n=1
Subjective worsening of motor deficits associated with subacute myelopathy: n=1
Multiple Sclerosis / CNS inflammatory disease: n=3
CSF Total protein (mean ± s.d., max, min) 0.44 ± 0.17 g/L (max 0.74, min 0.27) 0.48 ± 0.20 g/L (max 0.73, min 0.25) 0.25 ± 0.02 g/L (max 0.23, min 0.28)
CSF erythrocytes 0 cells/μL: n=4, 212 cells/μL: n=1 0–2 cells/μL: n=4, 0–5 cells/μL: n=2, 58 cells/μL: n=1
*

one patient (D006; still considered asymptomatic regarding ATTR Amyloidosis) not included in this average.

#

two patients (D010, D006; untreated) not included in this average.