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*Diagnosis is clinical & pathologic. | *Diagnosis is clinical & pathologic. | ||
**Pathologic finding alone are not diagnostic. | **Pathologic finding alone are not diagnostic. | ||
**Onset, rate of progression and the development of pathology are highly variable. | |||
*Defined by: | |||
**Pathological accumulation of amyloid β (Aβ) into extracellular plaques. | |||
**Abnormally phosphorylated tau that accumulates intraneuronally forming neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). | |||
**Clinicopathological correlation better for NFT than for Aβ.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Nelson | first1 = PT. | last2 = Alafuzoff | first2 = I. | last3 = Bigio | first3 = EH. | last4 = Bouras | first4 = C. | last5 = Braak | first5 = H. | last6 = Cairns | first6 = NJ. | last7 = Castellani | first7 = RJ. | last8 = Crain | first8 = BJ. | last9 = Davies | first9 = P. | title = Correlation of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes with cognitive status: a review of the literature. | journal = J Neuropathol Exp Neurol | volume = 71 | issue = 5 | pages = 362-81 | month = May | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1097/NEN.0b013e31825018f7 | PMID = 22487856 }}</ref> | |||
*Seen in conjunction with vascular amyloid deposition; see ''[[cerebral amyloid angiopathy]]''. | *Seen in conjunction with vascular amyloid deposition; see ''[[cerebral amyloid angiopathy]]''. | ||
*Evidence of possible iatrogenic transmission by cadaver-sourced growth hormone batches.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Duyckaerts | first1 = C. | last2 = Sazdovitch | first2 = V. | last3 = Ando | first3 = K. | last4 = Seilhean | first4 = D. | last5 = Privat | first5 = N. | last6 = Yilmaz | first6 = Z. | last7 = Peckeu | first7 = L. | last8 = Amar | first8 = E. | last9 = Comoy | first9 = E. | title = Neuropathology of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and immunoassay of French cadaver-sourced growth hormone batches suggest possible transmission of tauopathy and long incubation periods for the transmission of Abeta pathology. | journal = Acta Neuropathol | volume = 135 | issue = 2 | pages = 201-212 | month = Feb | year = 2018 | doi = 10.1007/s00401-017-1791-x | PMID = 29209767 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Jaunmuktane | first1 = Z. | last2 = Mead | first2 = S. | last3 = Ellis | first3 = M. | last4 = Wadsworth | first4 = JD. | last5 = Nicoll | first5 = AJ. | last6 = Kenny | first6 = J. | last7 = Launchbury | first7 = F. | last8 = Linehan | first8 = J. | last9 = Richard-Loendt | first9 = A. | title = Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. | journal = Nature | volume = 525 | issue = 7568 | pages = 247-50 | month = Sep | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1038/nature15369 | PMID = 26354483 }}</ref> | *Evidence of possible iatrogenic transmission by cadaver-sourced growth hormone batches.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Duyckaerts | first1 = C. | last2 = Sazdovitch | first2 = V. | last3 = Ando | first3 = K. | last4 = Seilhean | first4 = D. | last5 = Privat | first5 = N. | last6 = Yilmaz | first6 = Z. | last7 = Peckeu | first7 = L. | last8 = Amar | first8 = E. | last9 = Comoy | first9 = E. | title = Neuropathology of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and immunoassay of French cadaver-sourced growth hormone batches suggest possible transmission of tauopathy and long incubation periods for the transmission of Abeta pathology. | journal = Acta Neuropathol | volume = 135 | issue = 2 | pages = 201-212 | month = Feb | year = 2018 | doi = 10.1007/s00401-017-1791-x | PMID = 29209767 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Jaunmuktane | first1 = Z. | last2 = Mead | first2 = S. | last3 = Ellis | first3 = M. | last4 = Wadsworth | first4 = JD. | last5 = Nicoll | first5 = AJ. | last6 = Kenny | first6 = J. | last7 = Launchbury | first7 = F. | last8 = Linehan | first8 = J. | last9 = Richard-Loendt | first9 = A. | title = Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. | journal = Nature | volume = 525 | issue = 7568 | pages = 247-50 | month = Sep | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1038/nature15369 | PMID = 26354483 }}</ref> | ||