The most important features that characterize and differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy from other Parkinsonian syndromes are postural instability, supranuclear gaze palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, parkinsonism, and cognitive disturbances. In this article, we demonstrate that progressive supranuclear palsy patients exhibit pathologically decreased pupil diameters after dark adaptation recorded by TV pupillography. A cut off value of 3.99 mm was defined to differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy patients from patients with other extrapyramidal disorders like Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy with a specificity of 86.4% and a sensitivity of 70.8%. Other pupil abnormalities could not be described in patients with extrapyramidal syndromes.
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Mov Disord
January 2025
Department of Neurology, LMU University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.
Background: The recent Movement Disorders Society (MDS)-progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) diagnostic criteria conceptualized three clinical diagnostic certainty levels: "suggestive of PSP" for sensitive early diagnosis based on subtle clinical signs, "possible PSP" balancing sensitivity and specificity, and "probable PSP" highly specific for PSP pathology.
Objective: The aim of this study was to prospectively validate the criteria against long-term clinical follow-up and characterize the diagnostic certainty increase over time.
Methods: Patients with "possible PSP" or "suggestive of PSP" diagnosis and clinical follow-up were recruited in two German multicenter longitudinal observational studies (ProPSP and DescribePSP).
Neurol Sci
January 2025
Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (CEMAND), Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
Due to the variety of clinical phenotypes and the massive clinical overlap with other neurodegenerative diseases, the diagnosis of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) remains a major challenge. Notwithstanding, early and reliable clinical diagnosis of PSP is highly warranted for estimation of prognosis, appropriate allocation to therapeutic trials and development of new diagnostic tools. As reliable biomarkers are lacking, PSP diagnosis relies on the application of the clinical criteria promoted by the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS).
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January 2025
Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Introduction: Patients with neurodegenerative disorders resulting in progressive dysphagia often require gastrostomy. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are crucial in presurgical evaluation; however, reports on pulmonary function in multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) are limited.
Materials And Methods: This single-center, retrospective study analyzed the PFT records from patients with MSA and PSP admitted between January 2012 and October 2023.
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci
January 2025
Departments of Psychiatry (Rivas-Grajales) and Neurology (Han, Wang), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston; Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Greenstein, Shih).
Front Neurol
December 2024
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Background: The Montreal Cognitive assessment (MoCA) is a well-validated global cognitive screening instrument. Its validity in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) has not been assessed.
Objectives: To evaluate the MoCA as an outcome measure in PSP clinical trials.
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