Are the International Parkinson disease and Movement Disorder Society progressive supranuclear palsy (IPMDS-PSP) diagnostic criteria accurate enough to differentiate common PSP phenotypes?

ABSTRACT: The International Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorder Society PSP study group (IPMDS-PSP) recently published new clinical diagnostic criteria for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Currently, there is no data regarding the accuracy of these sets of criteria for differentiating various PSP phenotypes. We discuss the accuracy of the IPMDS-PSP criteria for differentiation of patients with the PSP- Richardson phenotype (PSP-RS) from those with the PSP-Parkinsonism (PSP-P) using data from a sample of 274 clinically diagnosed PSP patients participating in the Environmental Genetic PSP (ENGENE-PSP) case control study. Using National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Society for PSP (NINDS-SPSP) criteria and the Williams criteria we categorized 259 of these patients as

SUBMITTER: Shoeibi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6914266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature