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Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) for monogenic disorders (PGT-M) for germline mosaicism was previously highly dependent on polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based directed mutation detection combined with l...
Children with medical complexity (CMC) require long-term care accompanied by different health- and social care professionals. Depending on the severity of the chronic condition, caregivers spend a lot of time ...
Classical galactosemia (CG), an inborn error of galactose metabolism, results in long-term complications including cognitive impairment and movement disorders, despite early diagnosis and dietary treatment. Tw...
Primary carnitine deficiency is an inborn error of metabolism, which can lead to life-threating complications early in life. Low carnitine levels can be detected by newborn bloodspot screening (NBS). However, ...
CNS actinomycosis is a rare chronic suppurative infection with non-specific clinical features. Diagnosis is difficult due to its similarity to malignancy, nocardiosis and other granulomatous diseases. This sys...
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Glycogen storage disease type VI (GSD VI) is a rare disease in which liver glycogen metabolism is impaired by mutations in the glycogen phosphorylase L (PYGL). This study aimed to examine the clinical features, g...
Optic atrophy-13 with retinal and foveal abnormalities (OPA13) (MIM #165510) is a mitochondrial disease in which apparent bilateral optic atrophy is present and sometimes followed by retinal pigmentary changes...
Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare autosomal recessive lung disease caused by variants in the SLC34A2 gene encoding the sodium-dependent phosphate transport protein 2B, NaPi-2b. PAM is characterize...
Mitochondrial diseases present as multi-system disorders requiring a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach. The data on healthcare resource utilization associated with mitochondrial diseases and the clinica...
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive congenital metabolic disorder caused by PAH variants. Previously, approximately 5% of PKU patients remained undiagnosed after Sanger sequencing and multiplex ligati...
Metreleptin, a recombinant analog of human leptin, is an approved therapy, adjunct to diet, to treat the metabolic complications of leptin deficiency in patients with lipodystrophy – a group of rare diseases c...
X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) is a rare disorder characterized by primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH), with limited clinical and genetic characterization.
Associations between blood pressure (BP) with age at onset of Huntington’s disease (HD) have reported inconsistent findings. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to assess effects of BP and lowering systolic B...
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs), particularly where feeding artery/arteries to PAVMs ≥ 3 mm can be treated with embolization. The treatment for hypoxemia resulting from multiple small or diffuse ...
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a group of rare inheritable disorders of connective tissue. The cardinal manifestations of OI are low bone mass and reduced bone mineral strength, leading to increased bone frag...
Wilson disease (WD) is a rare, hereditary disorder of copper metabolism. Due to its variable symptoms and manifestations, diagnosis remains challenging. Affected patients must obtain lifelong medical treatment...
Patients with vascular anomalies (VAs) who receive oral sirolimus may be at high risk of infectious complications. Antibiotic prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ) has been advocated. Howeve...
Niemann–Pick disease type C (NPC) is a rare inherited lysosomal storage disease typified by accumulation of cholesterol and other lipids in late endosomes/lysosomes, thereby resulting in a spectrum of neurolog...
The purpose of this study was to explore the literature on fatigue in patients with syndromic heritable thoracic aortic disease (sHTAD), including Marfan syndrome (MFS), Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS), vascular Eh...
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) is a rare monogenic autoinflammatory disease, whose clinical phenotype was expanded since the first cases, originally described as mimicker of polyarteritis nodosa, ...
Rosai–Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare form of non-Langerhans cell histiocytic disease. The aim of this study was to review the characteristics of RDD using 18F-FDG PET/CT and determine its efficacy in the disease...
The pathogenic variants responsible for Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) in folliculin (FLCN) gene mostly consist of point mutations. Although large intragenic deletions/duplications have been reported in several c...
Rare disease is a general term for a disease that affects a small number of people but recognized as a global public health priority. Governments worldwide are paying more and more attention to the academical ...
Intestinal malrotation is a rare congenital condition with potentially devastating consequences due to potential volvulus and massive intestinal necrosis. Diagnosis is often delayed and long-term symptoms foll...
Somatropin treatment is indicated in a variety of disorders including growth hormone (GH) deficiency, Prader–Willi and Turner syndrome, chronic renal insufficiency and others. To date, almost all studies have ...
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an ultrarare and disabling genetic disorder of connective tissue characterized by congenital malformation of the great toes, and progressive heterotopic ossificat...
Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder caused by deficiency of a specific coagulation factor. Factor VIII deficiency is responsible for hemophilia A while factor IX deficiency is responsible for hemophil...
Many patients with rare diseases are still lacking a timely diagnosis and approved therapies for their condition despite the tremendous efforts of the research community, biopharmaceutical, medical device indu...
Pompe disease is a lysosomal storage disease treated with life-long enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Home-based ERT has been provided in the Netherlands since 2008 because it diminishes the burden of treatmen...
In the past decade, SETBP1 has attracted a lot of interest on that the same gene with different type or level (germline or somatic) of variants could provoke different pathologic consequences such as Schinzel-Gie...
Patient registries serve to overcome the research limitations inherent in the study of rare diseases, where patient numbers are typically small. Despite the value of real-world data collected through registrie...
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a DNA repair disorder characterized by changes in several organs and systems. Advances in clinical protocols have resulted in increased survival of A-T patients, however disease ...
Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) are debilitating conditions. Diagnosis is currently clinical in the absence of biomarkers, and criteria developed for adults...
Impairment of bulbar function in adult individuals with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) usually is not assessed by established motor scores. Measurements of oral function including quantitative muscle and endura...
The peroxisome is a ubiquitous single membrane-enclosed organelle with an important metabolic role. Peroxisomal disorders represent a class of medical conditions caused by deficiencies in peroxisome function a...
The term congenital ocular motor apraxia (COMA), coined by Cogan in 1952, designates the incapacity to initiate voluntary eye movements performing rapid gaze shift, so called saccades. While regarded as a noso...
Eosinophilic-related clinical manifestations are protean and the underlying conditions underpinning eosinophilia are highly diverse. The etiological workup of unexplained eosinophilia/hypereosinophilia can be ...
If esophageal papilloma (EP) is a rare condition, esophageal papillomatosis (EPS) is a distinct rarity. To date, only 53 well documented cases have been described in English literature. However, the number of ...
This study measured sleep quality among caregivers of patients with Dravet syndrome (DS) and assessed the impacts of mental health problems and caregiver burden on sleep quality.
Rare diseases are a particular field of public health that is characterized by scattered, often insufficient knowledge and infrastructure. The scarcity of specialized knowledge often forces clinicians and pati...
To describe the radiological features of Gorham–Stout disease (GSD) as evaluated using plain radiography and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance lymphangiography (DCMRL) imaging techniques.
Inherited Metabolic Disorders (IMDs) are rare diseases where one impaired protein leads to a cascade of changes in the adjacent chemical conversions. IMDs often present with non-specific symptoms, a lack of a ...
Enzyme replacement therapy with olipudase alfa, a recombinant human acid sphingomyelinase (rhASM), is indicated for non-central nervous system manifestations of acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) in child...
The transition process from paediatric/adolescent to adult medical care settings is of utmost importance for the future health of adolescents with chronic diseases and poses even more difficulties in the conte...
Pathogenic variants in the ATAD3A gene lead to a heterogenous clinical picture and severity ranging from recessive neonatal-lethal pontocerebellar hypoplasia through milder dominant Harel-Yoon syndrome up to, aga...
Whole lung lavage (WLL) has been recognized as the most effective therapy of severe pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). Most centers perform the lavage of each lung in two sessions under general anesthesia a...
Patient-centered research has emerged as critically important for understanding the impact of treatments on key stakeholders. The subjective experience of quality of life (QOL) is increasingly recognized as fu...
Randomized controlled trial (RCT) data have important implications in drug development. However, the feasibility and cost of conducting RCTs lower the motivation for drug development, especially for rare disea...
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) is a rare bleeding disorder with a high prevalence in communities where consanguineous marriages are mainstream. Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease, and its risk incr...
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