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. 2018 Jun 26;45(13):2342–2357. doi: 10.1007/s00259-018-4075-3

Table 1.

Demographics, neurolinguistic and neuropsychological assessment of the 20 included PPA patients

Patient number
2 3 4 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 1 5 6 8 10 7 9 11
PPA variant NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV NFV SV SV SV SV SV LV LV LV
Age (years) 80 57 62 68 76 66 70 65 49 63 70 76 73 71 63 52 55 77 63 74
Gender M F F F M F M M F M M F F F F F M M F M
Education (years) 17 16 12 10 12 15 12 15 12 10 10 12 14 8 13 13 14 10 12 18
Handedness R R L R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Symptom duration (months) 33 43 16 60 37 74 39 40 53 29 45 24 19 44 11 131 6 59 95 48
[11C]PIB SUVR NC NC 1.26 NC 2.1 1.16 1.35 1.57 NC 1.37 NC NC NC NC 1.12 1.14 1.2 NC 1.81 NC
CSF Aβ42 (pg/ml) 816 1,057 NC 832 477 NC NC 759 1,077 NC 887 1,144 1,558 733 NC NC NC 564 664 321
CSF t-tau (pg/ml) 195 247 NC 320 442 NC NC 744 231 NC 270 265 428 262 NC NC NC 407 NC 858
CSF Aβ42/t-tau 4.18 4.28 NC 2.60 1.08 NC NC 1.02 4.66 NC 3.29 4.32 3.64 2.80 NC NC NC 1.39 NC 0.37
CSF p181-tau (pg/ml) 42 34 NC 43 59.6 NC NC 87.1 31 NC 48 39.9 52 36.3 NC NC NC 65.7 NC 95
Amyloid-positivity + + + + +
CDR 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 0.5 1 NC 0.5 0.5 0.50 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1 0 0.5
MMSE score (/30) 28 24 28 18 24 30 23 5 NC 26 26 18 26 25 29 23 30 26 28 24
CPM score (/36) 26 NC 31 29 29 26 29 24 NC 25 26 17 28 27 34 36 34 32 32 12
BNT score (/60) 52 7 46 30 43 47 41 4 17 53 53 48 11 14 17 9 33 46 57 24
AVF score (1 min) 8 7 12 2 7 13 9 2 NC 16 4 5 7 11 13 6 16 7 23 8
AAT sum single-word comprehension score (/60) 41 56 49 55 41 51 42 37 27 53 51 47 31 32 39 35 58 53 54 50
PALPA auditory word–picture matching score (/40) 40 37 39 39 39 38 39 38 NC 40 40 36 26 27 26 21 39 38 39 38
PALPA verbal associative-semantic high imageability (/15) 11 15 15 10 12 14 14 11 NC 13 10 14 9 15 12 5 14 15 15 15
PALPA verbal associative-semantic low imageability (/15) 12 14 11 7 14 12 11 7 NC 11 9 5 3 7 10 6 14 13 14 12
PPT score (/52) 46 47 47 48 47 48 47 47 NC 49 48 45 31 31 38 34 47 49 52 45
BORB easy B score (/32) 28 31 25 30 29 28 28 29 NC 30 28 27 22 19 22 18 25 28 30 26
BORB hard A score (/32) 25 31 19 22 22 26 24 20 NC 21 30 20 17 19 22 17 26 23 26 21
WEZT verb comprehension score (/60) 56 60 45 40 55 42 52 42 NC 58 55 49 43 32 51 48 58 57 57 53
WEZT auditory sentence comprehension score (/40) 36 29 36 26 33 35 31 12 NC 33 32 23 37 33 38 38 39 27 40 37
WEZT active sentence anagram score (/10) 10 10 10 9 9 10 10 5 NC 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
WEZT passive sentence anagram score (/10) 10 10 9 6 9 10 5 5 NC 10 3 5 10 9 10 9 10 10 10 10
AAT cognate word repetition score (/30) 29 28 30 30 16 30 29 NC 5 29 27 30 30 30 28 30 30 30 29 29
AAT sentence repetition score (/30) 27 17 28 24 28 28 28 NC 0 25 23 27 29 29 30 27 30 13 26 24
PALPA single word repetition score (/80) 77 76 80 79 55 80 77 NC NC 49 76 80 79 77 77 80 79 79 80 80
PALPA pseudoword repetition score (/80) 21 63 72 72 11 78 57 NC NC 20 59 53 77 69 67 79 77 66 74 56
DIAS diadochokinesis score 103 24 50 51 42 77 115 75 NC 79 18 32 50 70 147 125 80 77 114 117

Values in bold are significantly different from those in healthy controls based on Crawford and Garthwaite [30] or Crawford and Howell [31] statistical procedures

AAT Akense Afasie Test (Aachen Aphasia Test), 1–42 amyloid-β42, AVF Animal Verbal Fluency, BNT Boston Naming Test, BORB Birmingham Object Recognition Battery, CDR Clinical Dementia Rating scale, [11C]PIB 11C-Pittsburgh Compound B, CPM Coloured Progressive Matrices, CSF cerebrospinal fluid, DIAS Diagnostisch Instrument voor Apraxie van de Spraak (Diagnostic Instrument for Apraxia of Speech), LV logopenic variant, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, NFV nonfluent variant, PALPA Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia, PPA primary progressive aphasia, PPT Pyramids and Palm Trees Test, p181-tau phospho181-tau, SUVR standardized uptake value ratio in a composite cortical volume of interest, SV semantic variant, WEZT Werkwoorden En Zinnen Test. NC no data collected