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  1. Content type: Research

    To evaluate whether immunomodulation can eliminate high sustained antibody levels, and thereby improve clinical outcome in classic infantile Pompe patients receiving enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with recom...

    Authors: E. Poelman, M. Hoogeveen-Westerveld, J. M. P. van den Hout, R. G. M. Bredius, A. C. Lankester, G. J. A. Driessen, S. S. M. Kamphuis, W. W. M. Pijnappel and A. T. van der Ploeg

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:71

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    We describe early health services utilization for children diagnosed with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency through newborn screening in Ontario, Canada, relative to a screen negative compa...

    Authors: Maria D. Karaceper, Sara D. Khangura, Kumanan Wilson, Doug Coyle, Marni Brownell, Christine Davies, Linda Dodds, Annette Feigenbaum, Deshayne B. Fell, Scott D. Grosse, Astrid Guttmann, Steven Hawken, Robin Z. Hayeems, Jonathan B. Kronick, Anne-Marie Laberge, Julian Little…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:70

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  3. Content type: Research

    Rare disease diagnosis is often delayed by years. A primary factor for this delay is a lack of knowledge and awareness regarding rare diseases. Probabilistic diagnostic decision support systems (DDSSs) have th...

    Authors: Simon Ronicke, Martin C. Hirsch, Ewelina Türk, Katharina Larionov, Daphne Tientcheu and Annette D. Wagner

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:69

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  4. Content type: Research

    The Korean Undiagnosed Diseases Program (KUDP) was launched in January 2017 as a one-year pilot project to address the increasing global interest in patients with undiagnosed rare diseases. The purpose of this...

    Authors: Soo Yeon Kim, Byung Chan Lim, Jin Sook Lee, Woo Joong Kim, Hyuna Kim, Jung Min Ko, Ki Joong Kim, Sun Ah Choi, Hunmin Kim, Hee Hwang, Ji Eun Choi, Anna Cho, Jangsup Moon, Moon Woo Seong, Sung Sup Park, Yun Jeong Lee…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:68

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  5. Content type: Research

    Hereditary angioedema with C1-inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE) is characterized by localized, non-pitting, and transient swelling of submucosal or subcutaneous region. Human fetuin-A is a multifunctional glyc...

    Authors: Bernadett Márkus, Nóra Veszeli, György Temesszentandrási, Henriette Farkas and László Kalabay

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:67

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  6. Content type: Research

    The Registry of Adult and Paediatric Patients Treated with Cystadane® – Homocystinuria (RoCH) is a non-interventional, observational, multi-centre, post-authorization safety study that aimed to identify safety...

    Authors: Vassili Valayannopoulos, Manuel Schiff, Nathalie Guffon, Yann Nadjar, Angels García-Cazorla, Mercedes Martinez-Pardo Casanova, Aline Cano, Maria L. Couce, Jaime Dalmau, Luis Peña-Quintana, Vincent Rigalleau, Guy Touati, Luis Aldamiz-Echevarria, Pascal Cathebras, Didier Eyer, Dominique Brunet…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:66

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  7. Content type: Research

    Acquired angioedema due to C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency (AAE-C1-INH) is a serious condition that may result in life-threatening asphyxiation due to laryngeal edema. It is associated with malignant B-cell l...

    Authors: Konrad Bork, Petra Staubach-Renz and Jochen Hardt

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:65

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  8. Content type: Research

    First-choice treatment for Cushing’s disease is transsphenoidal adenomectomy. Since its introduction in the 1970s, many centers have now switched from microscopic to endoscopic surgery. We compared both techni...

    Authors: Leonie H. A. Broersen, Femke M. van Haalen, Nienke R. Biermasz, Daniel J. Lobatto, Marco J. T. Verstegen, Wouter R. van Furth, Olaf M. Dekkers and Alberto M. Pereira

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:64

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  9. Content type: Research

    y+LAT1, encoded by SCL7A7, is the protein mutated in Lysinuric Protein Intolerance (LPI), a rare metabolic disease caused by a defective cationic amino acid (CAA, arginine, lysine, ornithine) transport at the ...

    Authors: Bianca Maria Rotoli, Amelia Barilli, Filippo Ingoglia, Rossana Visigalli, Massimiliano G. Bianchi, Francesca Ferrari, Diego Martinelli, Carlo Dionisi-Vici and Valeria Dall’Asta

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:63

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  10. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) is a recessive disease caused by α-glucosidase (GAA) deficiency, leading to progressive muscle weakness and/or respiratory failure in children and adults. Respiratory derangemen...

    Authors: Marco Confalonieri, Michele Vitacca, Raffaele Scala, Mario Polverino, Eugenio Sabato, Grazia Crescimanno, Piero Ceriana, Caterina Antonaglia, Gabriele Siciliano, Nadja Ring, Serena Zacchigna, Francesco Salton and Andrea Vianello

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:62

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  11. Content type: Research

    Warts Hypogammaglobulinemia Immunodeficiency Myelokathexis (WHIM) syndrome is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by recurrent bacterial infections, severe chronic neutropenia, with lymphopenia, monocytop...

    Authors: Jessica Galli, Lorenzo Pinelli, Serena Micheletti, Giovanni Palumbo, Lucia Dora Notarangelo, Vassilios Lougaris, Laura Dotta, Elisa Fazzi and Raffaele Badolato

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:61

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  12. Content type: Research

    Patients with a neuroendocrine tumour (NET) frequently have physical and psychosocial complaints. Aim of this study is to determine whether a web-based, personalised information and support system (WINS) reduc...

    Authors: L. D. de Hosson, G. Bouma, J. Stelwagen, H. van Essen, G. H. de Bock, D. J. A. de Groot, E. G. E. de Vries and A. M. E. Walenkamp

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:60

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  13. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Medical students automatically couple rare illnesses with biomedical minutiae. Upon meeting CS (pseudonym), a 5-year-old boy with Worster Drought Syndrome, I became inadvertently caught in the trap of focusing...

    Authors: Logan Zane John Williams

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:53

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  14. Content type: Research

    Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a low-penetrant genetic metabolic disease caused by a deficiency of hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) in the haem biosynthesis. Manifest AIP (MAIP) is considered when ca...

    Authors: María Barreda-Sánchez, Juan Buendía-Martínez, Guillermo Glover-López, Carmen Carazo-Díaz, María Juliana Ballesta-Martínez, Vanesa López-González, María José Sánchez-Soler, Lidya Rodriguez-Peña, Ana Teresa Serrano-Antón, Remedios Gil-Ferrer, Maria del Carmen Martínez-Romero, Pablo Carbonell-Meseguer and Encarna Guillén-Navarro

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:59

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  15. Content type: Review

    X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is an inherited disease of phosphate metabolism in which inactivating mutations of the Phosphate Regulating Endopeptidase Homolog, X-Linked (PHEX) gene lead to local and systemic e...

    Authors: Signe Sparre Beck-Nielsen, Zulf Mughal, Dieter Haffner, Ola Nilsson, Elena Levtchenko, Gema Ariceta, Carmen de Lucas Collantes, Dirk Schnabel, Ravi Jandhyala and Outi Mäkitie

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:58

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  16. Content type: Review

    Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a genotypically and phenotypically heterogeneous group of neuromuscular disorders, which have in common an impaired neuromuscular transmission. Since the field of CMS...

    Authors: Josef Finsterer

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:57

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  17. Content type: Research

    Classical galactosemia (CG) is due to a severe deficiency of the galactose-1-phosphate uridyl-transferase (GALT), the main enzyme of galactose metabolism. Even early introduction of galactose-restricted diet f...

    Authors: Mirjam Korner, Sonja Kälin, Antoinette Zweifel-Zehnder, Niklaus Fankhauser, Jean-Marc Nuoffer and Matthias Gautschi

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:56

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  18. Content type: Research

    Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD), due to mutations in the sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 1 (SMPD1) gene, is divided into infantile neurovisceral ASMD (Niemann-Pick type A), chronic neurovisceral ASMD (int...

    Authors: Patryk Lipiński, Ladislav Kuchar, Ekaterina Y. Zakharova, Galina V. Baydakova, Agnieszka Ługowska and Anna Tylki-Szymańska

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:55

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  19. Content type: Research

    Patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) develop multiple pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasias (PNENs). Size at diagnosis and growth during follow-up are crucial parameters. According to the W...

    Authors: Andreas Selberherr, Oskar Koperek, Philipp Riss, Christian Scheuba, Martin B. Niederle, Reto Kaderli, Aurel Perren and Bruno Niederle

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:54

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  20. Content type: Research

    Determining the etiology of oculocutaneous albinism is important for proper clinical management and to determine prognosis. The purpose of this study was to genotype and phenotype eight adopted Chinese childre...

    Authors: Bradley Power, Carlos R. Ferreira, Dong Chen, Wadih M. Zein, Kevin J. O’Brien, Wendy J. Introne, Joshi Stephen, William A. Gahl, Marjan Huizing, May Christine V. Malicdan, David R. Adams and Bernadette R. Gochuico

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:52

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  21. Content type: Review

    The progressive ataxias are a group of rare and complicated neurological disorders, knowledge of which is often poor among healthcare professionals (HCPs). The patient support group Ataxia UK, recognising the ...

    Authors: Rajith de Silva, Julie Greenfield, Arron Cook, Harriet Bonney, Julie Vallortigara, Barry Hunt and Paola Giunti

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:51

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  22. Content type: Research

    Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare severe clinical syndrome. HLH manifesting during pregnancy has been paid much attention in recent years. Despite the specificity of pregnancy-related HLH, the...

    Authors: Yue Song, Zhao Wang, Zengping Hao, Lihong Li, Junli Lu, Hongjun Kang, Yanping Lu, Yanqin You, Lijuan Li, Qingyun Chen and Bo Chen

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:50

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  23. Content type: Research

    The burden of rare diseases on society and patients’ families has increased in Korea. However, because of the infrequency of rare diseases, there is a lack of resources and information to address these cases a...

    Authors: Sung-Shil Lim, Wanhyung Lee, Yeong-Kwang Kim, Jihyun Kim, Jong Heon Park, Bo Ram Park and Jin-Ha Yoon

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:49

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  24. Content type: Research

    Severe mucopolysaccharidosis type I (also known as Hurler syndrome) is a rare devasting recessive genetic disease caused by the deficiency of an enzyme. Hematopoietic stem cell transplant is the standard of ca...

    Authors: Therese Conner, Francesca Cook, Vivian Fernandez, Karen Rascati and Vanessa Rangel-Miller

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:48

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  25. Content type: Research

    Since incentives were introduced to promote orphan drugs in Europe, several dozens of drugs have been registered at the European level. However, patient access on a national level remains very heterogeneous ac...

    Authors: Marion Bourdoncle, Blandine Juillard-Condat and Florence Taboulet

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:47

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  26. Content type: Research

    Krabbe disease is a rare neurological disorder caused by a deficiency in the lysosomal enzyme, β-galactocerebrosidase, resulting in demyelination of the central and peripheral nervous systems. If left without ...

    Authors: Maria L. Beltran-Quintero, Nicholas A. Bascou, Michele D. Poe, David A. Wenger, Carlos A. Saavedra-Matiz, Matthew J. Nichols and Maria L. Escolar

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:46

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  27. Content type: Research

    Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) and Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RSTS) are both rare congenital multiple malformation disorders caused by genes associated with transcription. They share a number of similar fea...

    Authors: Hui Tang, Jing Guo, Siyuan Linpeng and Lingqian Wu

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:45

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  28. Content type: Research

    In phenylketonuria, casein glycomacropeptide (CGMP) requires modification with the addition of some essential and semi essential amino acids to ensure suitability as a protein substitute. The optimal amount an...

    Authors: A. Daly, S. Evans, S. Chahal, S. Santra, A. Pinto, R. Jackson, C. Gingell, J. Rocha, F. J. Van Spronsen and A. MacDonald

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:44

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  29. Content type: Research

    Sarcoglycanopathies comprise four subtypes of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2C, LGMD2D, LGMD2E, and LGMD2F) that are caused, respectively, by mutations in the SGCG, SGCA, SGCB, and SGCD ...

    Authors: Zhiying Xie, Yue Hou, Meng Yu, Yilin Liu, Yanbin Fan, Wei Zhang, Zhaoxia Wang, Hui Xiong and Yun Yuan

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:43

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  30. Content type: Research

    Myotonic dystrophy (DM1), a neuromuscular disease related to DMPK gene mutations, is associated to endocrine disorders and cancer. A routine endocrine work-up, including thyroid ultrasound (US), was conducted in ...

    Authors: Adrien Ben Hamou, Stéphanie Espiard, Christine Do Cao, Miriam Ladsous, Camille Loyer, Alexandre Moerman, Samuel Boury, Maéva Kyheng, Claire-Marie Dhaenens, Vincent Tiffreau, Pascal Pigny, Gilles Lebuffe, Robert Caiazzo, Sébastien Aubert and Marie Christine Vantyghem

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:42

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  31. Content type: Research

    Bartter Syndrome is a rare, genetically heterogeneous, mainly autosomal recessively inherited condition characterized by hypochloremic hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. Mutations in several genes encoding for i...

    Authors: Maryam Najafi, Dor Mohammad Kordi-Tamandani, Farkhondeh Behjati, Simin Sadeghi-Bojd, Zeineb Bakey, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, Isabel Schüle, Anoush Azarfar and Miriam Schmidts

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:41

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  32. Content type: Review

    Propionic acidemia (PA, OMIM #606054) is a serious, life-threatening, inherited, metabolic disorder caused by the deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme propionyl-coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.3). The...

    Authors: Tímea Almási, Lin T. Guey, Christine Lukacs, Kata Csetneki, Zoltán Vokó and Tamás Zelei

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:40

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  33. Content type: Review

    The treatment of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) using mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors is clinically promising. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mTOR inh...

    Authors: Min Li, Ying Zhou, Chaoyang Chen, Ting Yang, Shuang Zhou, Shuqing Chen, Ye Wu and Yimin Cui

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:39

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  34. Content type: Research

    The TUBA1A-associated tubulinopathy is clinically heterogeneous with brain malformations, microcephaly, developmental delay and epilepsy being the main clinical features. It is an autosomal dominant disorder most...

    Authors: Moritz Hebebrand, Ulrike Hüffmeier, Regina Trollmann, Ute Hehr, Steffen Uebe, Arif B. Ekici, Cornelia Kraus, Mandy Krumbiegel, André Reis, Christian T. Thiel and Bernt Popp

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:38

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  35. Content type: Research

    Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked disorder caused by defects in TAZ with key clinical features including cardiomyopathy, neutropenia and skeletal myopathy. In order to gain a better understanding of the range ...

    Authors: Brittany Hornby, Rebecca McClellan, Lucy Buckley, Kimberley Carson, Tiffany Gooding and Hilary J. Vernon

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:37

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  36. Content type: Position statement

    Rare or orphan diseases often are inherited and overwhelmingly affect children. Many of these diseases have no treatments, are incurable, and have a devastating impact on patients and their families. Regulator...

    Authors: Andrew E. Mulberg, Christina Bucci-Rechtweg, Joseph Giuliano, David Jacoby, Franklin K. Johnson, Qing Liu, Deborah Marsden, Scott McGoohan, Robert Nelson, Nita Patel, Klaus Romero, Vikram Sinha, Sheela Sitaraman, John Spaltro and Vivian Kessler

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:36

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  37. Content type: Research

    Primary pulmonary lymphoma (PPL) is a rare disease, especially in children. We analyse the clinical features of PPL in 4 children to strengthen a understanding of it.

    Authors: Xiaohui Wu, Chunju Zhou, Ling Jin, Hui Liu, Jinrong Liu and Shunying Zhao

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:35

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  38. Content type: Review

    We describe 542 cases of symptomatic hereditary transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) identified through a review of the literature published between 2005 and 2016. Approximately 18% of the cases were...

    Authors: Márcia Waddington-Cruz, Hartmut Schmidt, Marc F. Botteman, John A. Carter, Michelle Stewart, Markay Hopps, Shari Fallet and Leslie Amass

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:34

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  39. Content type: Review

    MNGIE is a rare and fatal disease in which absence of the enzyme thymidine phosphorylase induces systemic accumulation of thymidine and deoxyuridine and secondary mitochondrial DNA alterations. Gastrointestina...

    Authors: Rana Yadak, Marjolein Breur and Marianna Bugiani

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:33

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  40. Content type: Research

    Niemann-Pick disease Type C (NP-C) is a lysosomal lipid storage disorder characterized by progressive neurodegenerative symptomatology. The signs and symptoms of NP-C vary with age at disease onset, and availa...

    Authors: Mercedes Pineda, Katarína Juríčková, Parvaneh Karimzadeh, Miriam Kolnikova, Vera Malinova, Jose Luis Insua, Christian Velten and Stefan A. Kolb

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:32

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  41. Content type: Research

    Clinical trials in rare diseases are more challenging than trials in frequent diseases. Small numbers of eligible trial participants, often complicated by heterogeneity among rare disease patients, hamper the ...

    Authors: C. M. W. Gaasterland, M. C. Jansen – van der Weide, M. J. du Prie – Olthof, M. Donk, M. M. Kaatee, R. Kaczmarek, C. Lavery, K. Leeson-Beevers, N. O’Neill, O. Timmis, V. van Nederveen, E. Vroom and J. H. van der Lee

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:31

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  42. Content type: Research

    Over 80% of women with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) develop spinal cord disease in adulthood for which treatment is supportive only. For future clinical trials quantitative data on disease progression r...

    Authors: Irene C. Huffnagel, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, Georges E. Janssens, Michel van Weeghel, Björn M. van Geel, Bwee Tien Poll-The, Stephan Kemp and Marc Engelen

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:30

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  43. Content type: Research

    The RASopathies are a class of developmental disorders caused by germline mutations in the RAS-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has been frequently described i...

    Authors: Hao Chen, Xin Li, Xiaoliang Liu, Jian Wang, Zhen Zhang, Jinjin Wu, Meirong Huang, Ying Guo, Fen Li, Xiumin Wang and Lijun Fu

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:29

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  44. Content type: Research

    Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a multisystemic inherited vascular dysplasia that leads to nosebleeds and visceral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Anti-angiogenic drugs thalidomide and bevac...

    Authors: Elisabetta Buscarini, Luisa Maria Botella, Urban Geisthoff, Anette D. Kjeldsen, Hans Jurgen Mager, Fabio Pagella, Patrizia Suppressa, Roberto Zarrabeitia, Sophie Dupuis-Girod and Claire L. Shovlin

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:28

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  45. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN; ORPHA: 643; OMIM# 256850) is a rare, hereditary, pediatric neurodegenerative disorder associated with intracellular accumulations of intermediate filaments (IFs). GAN knockout (KO...

    Authors: Diane Armao, Thomas W. Bouldin, Rachel M. Bailey, Jody E. Hooper, Diana X. Bharucha and Steven J. Gray

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:27

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  46. Content type: Research

    Little data is available on awareness of hemophilia carrier condition or associated bleeding risk and management in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study sought to identify hemophilia carriers in Côte d’Iv...

    Authors: Catherine Lambert, N’ Dogomo Meité, Ibrahima Sanogo, Sébastien Lobet, Eusèbe Adjambri, Stéphane Eeckhoudt and Cedric Hermans

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:26

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  47. Content type: Research

    Newborn screening programs are essential preventative public health initiatives but are not widely available in low-resource settings. The objective of this study was to describe the frequency and nature of sc...

    Authors: Malia S. Q. Murphy, Pranesh Chakraborty, Jesmin Pervin, Anisur Rahman, Lindsay A. Wilson, Monica Lamoureux, Kathryn Denize, Matthew Henderson, Steve Hawken, Beth K. Potter, Julian Little and Kumanan Wilson

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:25

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  48. Content type: Research

    While extraocular muscles are affected early in myasthenia gravis (MG), but respond to treatment, we observe a high incidence of treatment-resistant ophthalmoplegia (OP-MG) among MG subjects with African genet...

    Authors: Melissa Nel, Sharon Prince and Jeannine M. Heckmann

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:24

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  49. Content type: Research

    Patient reported outcome (PRO) information is crucial for establishing better patient-provider communication, improving shared decision-making between clinicians and patients, assessing patient responses to th...

    Authors: Laura L. Tosi, Marianne K. Floor, Christina M. Dollar, Austin P. Gillies, Tracy S. Hart, David D. Cuthbertson, V. Reid Sutton and Jeffrey P. Krischer

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:23

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  50. Content type: Research

    The clinical effect of copper accumulation on the heart of patients suffering from Wilson’s disease (WD) is not completely understood. We aimed to determine if patients with WD show signs of cardiac involvemen...

    Authors: Silvio Quick, Ulrike Reuner, Marie Weidauer, Charlotte Hempel, Felix Martin Heidrich, Christoph Mues, Krunoslav Michael Sveric, Karim Ibrahim, Heinz Reichmann, Axel Linke and Uwe Speiser

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2019 14:22

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