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Matching Clinical Diagnosis and Amyloid Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia.

Giulia GiacomucciSalvatore MazzeoSilvia BagnoliMatteo CasiniSonia PadiglioniCristina PolitoValentina BertiJuri BalestriniCamilla FerrariGemma LombardiAssunta IngannatoSandro SorbiBenedetta NacmiasValentina Bessi
Published in: Journal of personalized medicine (2021)
CSF Aβ42/40 ratio significantly increased the diagnostic accuracy of CSF biomarkers. On the basis of our current and previous data, we suggest a flowchart to guide the use of biomarkers according to clinical suspicion: due to the high PPV of both amyloid-PET and CSF analysis including Aβ42/40, in cases of concordance between at least one biomarker and clinical diagnosis, performance of the other analysis could be avoided. A combination of both biomarkers should be performed to better characterize unclear cases. If the two amyloid biomarkers are both negative, an underlying AD pathology can most probably be excluded.
Keyphrases
  • machine learning
  • electronic health record
  • cerebrospinal fluid
  • cognitive decline