Table 1

Clinical characteristics of patients and postmortem data

PatientSexAgeTissue pHPostmortem interval (h)
Control:
 Coronary diseaseM616.623
 Heart failureF875.911
 Carcinoma larynxM686.315
 Myocardial infarctF726.611
 PneumoniaF906.619
Parkinson’s disease:
 1M886.323
 2M806.323
 3M786.322
 4M786.124
 51-150 F806.09
  • 1-150 Also had extranigral Lewy bodies.