Occasional Review
Occasional Review
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R. D. Monie;A. M. Hunter;K. Rocchiccioli;J. P. White;I. A. Campbell;G. S. Kilpatrick;S. Glamorgan-S.-Glamo
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R. D. Monie;A. M. Hunter;K. Rocchiccioli;J. P. White;I. A. Campbell;G. S. Kilpatrick;S. Glamorgan-S.-Glamo
SUMMARY The Lewy body is a distinctive neuronal inclusion that is always found in the substantia nigra and other specific brain regions in Parkinson's disease. It is mainly composed of structurally altered neurofilament, and occurs wherever there is excessive loss of neurons. It occurs in some elderly individuals and rarely in other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. In 273 brains of patients dying from disorders other than Parkinson's disease, the age-specific prevalence of Lewy bodies increased from 3-8% to 12-8% between the sixth and ninth decades. Associated pathological findings suggest that these cases of incidental Lewy body disease are presymptomatic cases of Parkinson's disease, and confirm the importance of age (time) in the evolution of the disease. In view of the common and widespread occurrence of this disorder we propose that endo-genous mechanisms operating in early life may be more important than environmental agents in the pathogenesis of Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease. Neuronal inclusions called Lewy bodies are present in many surviving cells of the substantia nigra in all cases of Parkinson's disease fulfilling the UK Parkin-son's Disease Society Brain Bank clinical diagnostic criteria (table 1), if alternative Parkinsonian disorders are identified and excluded by pathological examination. Lewy bodies therefore provide a diagnostic marker and are as essential for the pathological diagnosis as the specific distribution of cell loss. The absence of Lewy bodies in even one bilateral 7 pm section of substantia nigra excludes Parkinson's disease .' Reports of Lewy bodies in individuals without Parkinsonian features suggest a presymptomatic phase of the disease (incidental Lewy body disease).2 Less commonly dementia34 and autonomic failure,5 due to cell loss and Lewy body formation in extra-nigral sites, complicate Parkinson's disease, or rarely occur alone. These other manifestations of the Lewy body-Parkinson's disease spectrum encourage the inclusive pathological term of idiopathic Lewy body disease (table 2). In recent years it has emerged that a small group of rare disorders or rare variants of common disorders are also sometimes associated with Lewy bodies in the nervous system, usually in some of the same areas affected in idiopathic Lewy body disease (table 2). These differ, however, because most are familial, occur at a young age and are associated with additional pathological lesions. In contrast to Parkinson's disease Lewy bodies are not invariably present; for example they are reported in only 10-15% of cases of Hallervorden-Spatz disease. IDIOPATHIC LEWY BODY DISEASE Distribution of …