Lucia A A Giannini1, David J Irwin1, Corey T McMillan1, Sharon Ash1, Katya Rascovsky1, David A Wolk1, Vivianna M Van Deerlin1, Edward B Lee1, John Q Trojanowski1, Murray Grossman2. 1. From the Department of Neurology (L.A.A.G.), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center, Department of Neurology (L.A.A.G., D.J.I., C.T.M., S.A., K.R., M.G.), Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (D.J.I., V.M.V.D., J.Q.T.), Alzheimer's Disease Center (D.A.W.), Department of Neurology, and Translational Pathology Laboratory, Perelman School of Medicine (E.B.L.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 2. From the Department of Neurology (L.A.A.G.), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center, Department of Neurology (L.A.A.G., D.J.I., C.T.M., S.A., K.R., M.G.), Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (D.J.I., V.M.V.D., J.Q.T.), Alzheimer's Disease Center (D.A.W.), Department of Neurology, and Translational Pathology Laboratory, Perelman School of Medicine (E.B.L.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. mgrossma@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether logopenic features of phonologic loop dysfunction reflect Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). METHODS: We performed a retrospective case-control study of 34 patients with PPA with available autopsy tissue. We compared baseline and longitudinal clinical features in patients with primary AD neuropathology to those with primary non-AD pathologies. We analyzed regional neuroanatomic disease burden in pathology-defined groups using postmortem neuropathologic data. RESULTS: A total of 19/34 patients had primary AD pathology and 15/34 had non-AD pathology (13 frontotemporal lobar degeneration, 2 Lewy body disease). A total of 16/19 (84%) patients with AD had a logopenic spectrum phenotype; 5 met published criteria for the logopenic variant (lvPPA), 8 had additional grammatical or semantic deficits (lvPPA+), and 3 had relatively preserved sentence repetition (lvPPA-). Sentence repetition was impaired in 68% of patients with PPA with AD pathology; forward digit span (DF) was impaired in 90%, substantially higher than in non-AD PPA (33%, p < 0.01). Lexical retrieval difficulty was common in all patients with PPA and did not discriminate between groups. Compared to non-AD, PPA with AD pathology had elevated microscopic neurodegenerative pathology in the superior/midtemporal gyrus, angular gyrus, and midfrontal cortex (p < 0.01). Low DF scores correlated with high microscopic pathologic burden in superior/midtemporal and angular gyri (p ≤ 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Phonologic loop dysfunction is a central feature of AD-associated PPA and specifically correlates with temporoparietal neurodegeneration. Quantitative measures of phonologic loop function, combined with modified clinical lvPPA criteria, may help discriminate AD-associated PPA.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether logopenic features of phonologic loop dysfunction reflect Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). METHODS: We performed a retrospective case-control study of 34 patients with PPA with available autopsy tissue. We compared baseline and longitudinal clinical features in patients with primary AD neuropathology to those with primary non-AD pathologies. We analyzed regional neuroanatomic disease burden in pathology-defined groups using postmortem neuropathologic data. RESULTS: A total of 19/34 patients had primary AD pathology and 15/34 had non-AD pathology (13 frontotemporal lobar degeneration, 2 Lewy body disease). A total of 16/19 (84%) patients with AD had a logopenic spectrum phenotype; 5 met published criteria for the logopenic variant (lvPPA), 8 had additional grammatical or semantic deficits (lvPPA+), and 3 had relatively preserved sentence repetition (lvPPA-). Sentence repetition was impaired in 68% of patients with PPA with AD pathology; forward digit span (DF) was impaired in 90%, substantially higher than in non-AD PPA (33%, p < 0.01). Lexical retrieval difficulty was common in all patients with PPA and did not discriminate between groups. Compared to non-AD, PPA with AD pathology had elevated microscopic neurodegenerative pathology in the superior/midtemporal gyrus, angular gyrus, and midfrontal cortex (p < 0.01). Low DF scores correlated with high microscopic pathologic burden in superior/midtemporal and angular gyri (p ≤ 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Phonologic loop dysfunction is a central feature of AD-associated PPA and specifically correlates with temporoparietal neurodegeneration. Quantitative measures of phonologic loop function, combined with modified clinical lvPPA criteria, may help discriminate AD-associated PPA.
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