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Phenotype, treatment practice and outcome in the cobalamin-dependent remethylation disorders and MTHFR deficiency: data from the E-HOD registry
To explore the clinical presentation, course, treatment and impact of early treatment in patients with remethylation disorders from the European Network and Registry for Homocystinurias and Methylation Defects...
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Is the early-onset torsion dystonia (EOTD) linked to TOR1A gene as frequent as expected in France?
Early onset torsion dystonia are rare movement disorders. Molecular defect is known for only a subgroup, consisting of a unique and recurrent mutation in the TOR1A gene. We undertook a nationwide census of French...
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Anakinra is safe and effective in controlling hyperimmunoglobulinaemia D syndrome-associated febrile crisis
Hyper-IgD and periodic fever syndrome (HIDS) is a hereditary autoinflammatory syndrome, characterized by recurrent inflammatory attacks. Treatment of HIDS is difficult. Recently, the IL-1ra analogue anakinra w...
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Inborn and Acquired Mitochondrial Leucodystrophy
In the last decades, the concept of “leucodystrophy” has dramatically evolved. These diseases initially were studied by clinical examination and neuropathology only. Their classification was based on their pat...
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Mevalonic aciduria and hyper-IgD syndrome: Two sides of the same coin?
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Therapy of Muscular Contractures
Contractures occur early in the course of neuromuscular diseases. They may even be present at birth as in the case of congenital myotonic dystrophy and congenital myopathies. Up till now, contractures were reg...
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Anaesthesia and resuscitation of the genetically related living donor in liver transplantation
Liver transplantation has become a method used in the treatment of an increasing number of adults and children suffering from end stage liver disease. As a consequence, there is a discrepancy between the avail...
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Relapsing acute encephalopathy: A complication of diphtheria-tetanus-poliomyelitis immunization in a young boy
Neurological complications of immunizations are rare. We report the case of relapsing acute encephalitis in a boy after two subsequent diphtheria-tetanus-poliomyelitis vaccinations. First the clinical signs we...
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Localised proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
We have performed localised proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the brain on four patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). The spectrum is characterised at the beginning of the disease ...
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Early-onset fatal encephalomyopathy associated with severe mtDNA depletion
We studied a 3-month-old girl who was admitted to hospital because of respiratory distress. The clinical course was characterized by a rapidly progressive generalized hypotonia with lactic acidosis and she die...
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Anesthesia and resuscitation of the genetically related living donor in liver transplantation
In view of recent results, liver transplantation has become a therapeutic method proposed for an increasing number of adult and children patients affected with lethal liver disease. Consequently, there is a di...
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Valproate-induced hepatic failure in a case of cytochromec oxidase deficiency
We report a 3 year-old girl with a myoclonic epilepsy. A fatal hepatic failure occurred after 3 months of valproate (VPA) therapy. In this patient, a defect of cytochromec oxidase (COX) was demonstrated in her ci...
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Image-Guided Proton MR Spectroscopy in Epilepsy
Localised proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy of the human brain is a new non-invasive technique which allows the detection of cerebral intermediary and oxidative metabolites (Hanstock et al, 1988). MR...
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l-2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria: Two further cases