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Oxford University Press, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 4(79), p. 378-392, 2019

DOI: 10.1093/jnen/nlz139

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Fabry Disease With Concomitant Lewy Body Disease

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Abstract

AbstractAlthough Gaucher disease can be accompanied by Lewy pathology (LP) and extrapyramidal symptoms, it is unknown if LP exists in Fabry disease (FD), another progressive multisystem lysosomal storage disorder. We aimed to elucidate the distribution patterns of FD-related inclusions and LP in the brain of a 58-year-old cognitively unimpaired male FD patient suffering from predominant hypokinesia. Immunohistochemistry (CD77, α-synuclein, collagen IV) and neuropathological staging were performed on 100-µm sections. Tissue from the enteric or peripheral nervous system was unavailable. As controls, a second cognitively unimpaired 50-year-old male FD patient without LP or motor symptoms and 3 age-matched individuals were examined. Inclusion body pathology was semiquantitatively evaluated. Although Lewy neurites/bodies were not present in the 50-year-old individual or in controls, severe neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta and LP corresponding to neuropathological stage 4 of Parkinson disease was seen in the 58-year-old FD patient. Major cerebrovascular lesions and/or additional pathologies were absent in this individual. We conclude that Lewy body disease with parkinsonism can occur within the context of FD. Further studies determining the frequencies of both inclusion pathologies in large autopsy-controlled FD cohorts could help clarify the implications of both lesions for disease pathogenesis, potential spreading mechanisms, and therapeutic interventions.