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Our goal was to compare the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) LRG levels between 119 iNPH patients and 33 age-matched controls and with the shunt responses and the brain biopsy Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) pathology among the iNPH patients. CSF LRG, A\u03b21-42, P-tau181, and T-tau were measured by using commercial ELISAs. The LRG levels in the CSF were significantly increased in the iNPH patients (p &lt; 0.001) as compared to the controls, regardless of the AD pathology. However, CSF LRG did not correlate with the shunt response in contrast to the previous findings. The CSF AD biomarkers, i.e., A\u03b21-42, T-tau, and P-tau correlated with the brain biopsy AD pathology as expected but were systematically lower in the iNPH patients when compared to the controls (&lt;0.001). Our findings support that the LRG levels in the CSF are potentially useful for the diagnostics of iNPH, independent of the brain AD pathology, but contrary to previous findings, not for predicting the shunt response. 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