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  1. Whilst a disease-modifying treatment for Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) does not exist currently, recent advances in complex molecular pathophysiology studies of FSHD have led to possible therap...

    Authors: Teresa Schätzl, Lars Kaiser and Hans-Peter Deigner

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:129

    Content type: Review

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  2. Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a rare mitochondrial disorder, characterized by acute or subacute bilateral vision loss, frequently leading to significant chronic disability, mainly in young peop...

    Authors: Andrea Rabenstein, Claudia B. Catarino, Verena Rampeltshammer, David Schindler, Constanze Gallenmüller, Claudia Priglinger, Oliver Pogarell, Tobias Rüther and Thomas Klopstock

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:127

    Content type: Research

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  3. Parents of children with severe inborn errors of metabolism frequently face stressful events related to the disease of their child and are consequently at high risk for developing parental posttraumatic stress...

    Authors: Thirsa Conijn, Lotte Haverman, Frits A. Wijburg and Carlijn De Roos

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:126

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  4. Combined methylmalonic acidemia and homocystinuria, cobalamin C type (cblC defect) is the most common inborn error of cobalamin metabolism, and different approaches have been applied to its prenatal diagnosis....

    Authors: Ting Chen, Lili Liang, Huiwen Zhang, Jun Ye, Wenjuan Qiu, Bing Xiao, Hong Zhu, Lei Wang, Feng Xu, Zhuwen Gong, Xuefan Gu and Lianshu Han

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:125

    Content type: Research

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  5. The main genetic causes of homocystinuria are cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) deficiency and the remethylation defects. Many patients present in childhood but milder forms may present later in life. Some cou...

    Authors: T. Morrison, F. Bösch, M. A. Landolt, V. Kožich, M. Huemer and A. A. M. Morris

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:124

    Content type: Research

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  6. Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is a DNA repair disorder that affects multiple body systems. Neurological problems and immunodeficiency are two important features of this disease. At this time, two main severity g...

    Authors: Valerie A. I. Natale, Tim J. Cole, Cynthia Rothblum-Oviatt, Jennifer Wright, Thomas O. Crawford, Maureen A. Lefton-Greif, Sharon A. McGrath-Morrow, Haley Schlechter and Howard M. Lederman

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:123

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:248

  7. Androgen insensitive syndrome (AIS) is a rare genetic disease resulting from androgen receptor (AR) mutations and one of the causes of 46, XY disorder of sexual development (DSD). This study aimed to describe the...

    Authors: Hui Zhu, Haijun Yao, Yue Xu, Yan Chen, Bing Han, Nan Wang, Hao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Wenjiao Zhu, Yuanping Shi, Hua Sun, Shuangxia Zhao, Huaidong Song, Yang Liu and Jie Qiao

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:122

    Content type: Research

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  8. Rare diseases present a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and severity levels and are often poorly known and underrepresented, making them difficult to classify. Diagnoses are usually coded using the In...

    Authors: Juan Rico, Luis Javier Echevarría-González de Garibay, María García-López, Sandra Guardiola-Vilarroig, Luis Alberto Maceda-Roldán, Óscar Zurriaga and Clara Cavero-Carbonell

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:121

    Content type: Research

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  9. The aim was to compare parent and child-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children born with esophageal atresia (EA) and determine factors that affect the level of parent–child agreement.

    Authors: Stefanie Witt, Michaela Dellenmark-Blom, Susanne Kuckuck, Jens Dingemann, Kate Abrahamsson, Carmen Dingemann, John Eric Chaplin, Benno Ure, Monika Bullinger, Vladimir Gatzinsky, Linus Jönsson and Julia Hannah Quitmann

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:120

    Content type: Research

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  10. This study assesses the areas and extent of impact of the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on rare disease (RD) organisations in the Asia Pacific region. There is no existing literature that foc...

    Authors: Claudia Ching Yan Chung, Yvette Nga Chung Ng, Ritu Jain and Brian Hon Yin Chung

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:119

    Content type: Research

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  11. Mastocytosis is a rare disease characterised by the accumulation and/or proliferation of abnormal mast cells (MCs) in one or several organs. It may present with a number of different symptoms that involve vari...

    Authors: Fatma Jendoubi, Maella Severino-Freire, Mathilde Negretto, Christophe Arbus, Carle Paul and Cristina Bulai Livideanu

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:118

    Content type: Research

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  12. Pharmacological corticosteroid therapy is the standard of care in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) that aims to control symptoms and slow disease progression through potent anti-inflammatory action. However, ...

    Authors: Stephanie Kourakis, Cara A. Timpani, Dean G. Campelj, Patricia Hafner, Nuri Gueven, Dirk Fischer and Emma Rybalka

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:117

    Content type: Position statement

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  13. Autosomal recessive axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia has been linked to loss of functional HINT1. The disease is particularly prevalent in Central and South-East Europe, Turkey and Russia due to the high c...

    Authors: Silvia Amor-Barris, Helle Høyer, Lin V. Brauteset, Els De Vriendt, Linda Strand, Albena Jordanova, Geir J. Braathen and Kristien Peeters

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:116

    Content type: Research

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  14. Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (APAP) results from the suppression of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) signaling by a neutralizing autoantibody against GM-CSF. B cell-activa...

    Authors: Masaki Hirose, Toru Arai, Chikatoshi Sugimoto, Takayuki Takimoto, Reiko Sugawara, Shojiro Minomo, Sayoko Shintani, Naoko Takeuchi, Kanako Katayama, Yasushi Inoue, Tomoko Kagawa, Takahiko Kasai, Masanori Akira and Yoshikazu Inoue

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:115

    Content type: Research

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  15. Hydroxyurea is one of the earliest drugs that showed promise in the management of haemoglobinopathies that include β-thalassaemia and sickle cell disease. Despite this, many aspects of hydroxyurea are either u...

    Authors: Nirmani Yasara, Anuja Premawardhena and Sachith Mettananda

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:114

    Content type: Review

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  16. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Suresh Vijay, Anais Brassier, Arunabha Ghosh, Simona Fecarotta, Florian Abel, Sachin Marulkar and Simon A. Jones

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:113

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:13

  17. Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency (ADSLD) is an ultrarare neurometabolic recessive disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the ADSL gene. The disease is characterized by wide clinical variability. Here w...

    Authors: Gerarda Mastrogiorgio, Marina Macchiaiolo, Paola Sabrina Buonuomo, Emanuele Bellacchio, Matteo Bordi, Davide Vecchio, Kari Payne Brown, Natalie Karen Watson, Benedetta Contardi, Francesco Cecconi, Marco Tartaglia and Andrea Bartuli

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:112

    Content type: Research

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  18. Genetic variants of TOLLIP and MUC5B, both on chromosome 11, have been reported to be associated with the development and/or prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This retrospective study was condu...

    Authors: Francesco Bonella, Ilaria Campo, Michele Zorzetto, Eda Boerner, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Dirk Theegarten, Christian Taube and Ulrich Costabel

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:111

    Content type: Research

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  19. Lipoprotein apheresis (LA) is considered as an add-on therapy for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). We aimed to analyze the data collected in the last 15 years from FH patients treated with LA,...

    Authors: J. Víšek, M. Bláha, V. Bláha, M. Lášticová, M. Lánska, C. Andrýs, J. Duintjer Tebbens, Ivone Cristina Igreja e Sá, K. Tripská, M. Vicen, I. Najmanová and P. Nachtigal

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:110

    Content type: Research

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  20. PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) refers to a group of rare disorders, caused by somatic activating mutations in PIK3CA, resulting in abnormal PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway signalling. Significant associated m...

    Authors: Karina Forde, Nicoletta Resta, Carlotta Ranieri, David Rea, Olga Kubassova, Mark Hinton, Katrina A. Andrews, Robert Semple, Alan D. Irvine and Veronika Dvorakova

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:109

    Content type: Research

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  21. Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common inherited cardiovascular disorder in people. Many causal mutations have been identified, but about 40% of cases do not have a known causative mutation. Mutation...

    Authors: Kathryn M. Meurs, Brian G. Williams, Dylan DeProspero, Steven G. Friedenberg, David E. Malarkey, J. Ashley Ezzell, Bruce W. Keene, Darcy B. Adin, Teresa C. DeFrancesco and Sandra Tou

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:108

    Content type: Research

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  22. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with olipudase alfa, a recombinant human acid sphingomyelinase (rhASM), is being developed to treat patients with ASM deficiency (ASMD), commonly known as Niemann–Pick disease ...

    Authors: Bethanie Garside, Jan Hoong Ho, See Kwok, Yifen Liu, Shaishav Dhage, Rachelle Donn, Zohaib Iqbal, Simon A. Jones and Handrean Soran

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:107

    Content type: Research

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  23. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a genetic disease characterized by acute neurovisceral attacks. Long-term clinical conditions, chronic symptoms and impaired health related quality of life (HRQoL) have be...

    Authors: Juan Buendía-Martínez, María Barreda-Sánchez, Lidya Rodríguez-Peña, María Juliana Ballesta-Martínez, Vanesa López-González, María José Sánchez-Soler, Ana Teresa Serrano-Antón, María Elena Pérez-Tomás, Remedios Gil-Ferrer, Francisco Avilés-Plaza, Guillermo Glover-López, Carmen Carazo-Díaz and Encarna Guillén-Navarro

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:106

    Content type: Research

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  25. X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is a hereditary rare disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in PHEX gene leading tohypophosphatemia and high renal loss of phosphate. Rickets and growth retardation are the m...

    Authors: Enrique Rodríguez-Rubio, Helena Gil-Peña, Sara Chocron, Leire Madariaga, Francisco de la Cerda-Ojeda, Marta Fernández-Fernández, Carmen de Lucas-Collantes, Marta Gil, María Isabel Luis-Yanes, Inés Vergara, Juan David González-Rodríguez, Susana Ferrando, Montserrat Antón-Gamero, Marta Carrasco Hidalgo-Barquero, Angustias Fernández-Escribano, Mº Ángeles Fernández-Maseda…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:104

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:154

  26. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd) newborn screening is still a matter of debate due to its highly heterogeneous birth prevalence and clinical expression, as well as, the lack of enough knowl...

    Authors: Marcela Vela-Amieva, Miguel Angel Alcántara-Ortigoza, Ariadna González-del Angel, Leticia Belmont-Martínez, Carlos López-Candiani and Isabel Ibarra-González

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:103

    Content type: Research

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  28. A recent report on long-term dietary mannose supplementation in phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency (PMM2-CDG) claimed improved glycosylation and called for double-blind randomized study of the dietary supplement ...

    Authors: Peter Witters, Andrew C. Edmondson, Christina Lam, Christin Johnsen, Marc C. Patterson, Kimiyo M. Raymond, Miao He, Hudson H. Freeze and Eva Morava

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:102

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  29. The complexity of the phenotypic characteristics and molecular bases of many rare human genetic diseases makes the diagnosis of such diseases a challenge for clinicians. A map for visualizing, locating and nav...

    Authors: Jian Yang, Cong Dong, Huilong Duan, Qiang Shu and Haomin Li

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:101

    Content type: Research

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  30. Hereditary Multiple Exostoses (HME), also known as Multiple Osteochondromas (MO) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by multiple benign cartilaginous bone tumors, which are caused by mutations in the gene...

    Authors: Zayed Al-Zayed, Roua A. Al-Rijjal, Lamya Al-Ghofaili, Huda A. BinEssa, Rajeev Pant, Anwar Alrabiah, Thamer Al-Hussainan, Minjing Zou, Brian F. Meyer and Yufei Shi

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:100

    Content type: Research

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  31. Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic variable vessel vasculitis that involves the skin, mucosa, joints, eyes, arteries, veins, nervous system and gastrointestinal system, presenting with remissions and exacerba...

    Authors: Isabelle Kone-Paut, Stéphane Barete, Bahram Bodaghi, Kumaran Deiva, Anne-Claire Desbois, Caroline Galeotti, Julien Gaudric, Gilles Kaplanski, Alfred Mahr, Nicolas Noel, Maryam Piram, Tu-Anh Tran, Bertrand Wechsler and David Saadoun

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16(Suppl 1):352

    Content type: Position statement

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  32. Cardiac abnormalities have been observed in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II). The aim of this study was to investigate the cardiac features and natural progression of Taiwanese patients wit...

    Authors: Hsiang-Yu Lin, Ming-Ren Chen, Chung-Lin Lee, Shan-Miao Lin, Chung-Lieh Hung, Dau-Ming Niu, Tung-Ming Chang, Chih-Kuang Chuang and Shuan-Pei Lin

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:99

    Content type: Research

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  33. X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XLHED), a rare genetic disorder, affects the normal development of ectodermal derivatives, such as hair, skin, teeth, and sweat glands. It is caused by pathogenic va...

    Authors: Laura Körber, Holm Schneider, Nicole Fleischer and Sigrun Maier-Wohlfart

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:98

    Content type: Research

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  34. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Markus Magerl, Holger Gothe, Simon Krupka, Anja Lachmann and Christoph Ohlmeier

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:97

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2020 15:221

  35. With the approval of three treatments for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and several promising therapies on the horizon, the SMA adolescent and young adult populations are expected to evolve in the coming years...

    Authors: Allison Mazzella, Mary Curry, Lisa Belter, Rosángel Cruz and Jill Jarecki

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:96

    Content type: Research

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  36. Following the broad application of new analytical methods, more and more pathophysiological processes in previously unknown diseases have been elucidated. The spectrum of clinical presentation of rare inherite...

    Authors: Thomas Opladen, Florian Gleich, Viktor Kozich, Maurizio Scarpa, Diego Martinelli, Franz Schaefer, Kathrin Jeltsch, Natalia Juliá-Palacios, Ángels García-Cazorla, Carlo Dionisi-Vici and Stefan Kölker

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:95

    Content type: Research

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  37. Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare, debilitating, genetic disease characterized by unpredictable, recurrent, and potentially fatal swelling of the skin and mucous membranes. We conducted a noninterventional...

    Authors: Joan Mendivil, Ryan Murphy, Marie de la Cruz, Ellen Janssen, Henrik Balle Boysen, Gagan Jain, Emel Aygören-Pürsün, Ishan Hirji and Giovanna Devercelli

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:94

    Content type: Research

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  38. Patients with Hailey-Hailey and Darier diseases present with disabling inflammatory lesions located in large skin folds, which are often exacerbated or induced by sweating. Quality of life is highly impaired b...

    Authors: Isabelle Dreyfus, Aude Maza, Lauriane Rodriguez, Margot Merlos, Hélène Texier, Vanessa Rousseau, Agnès Sommet and Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:93

    Content type: Research

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  39. Fractures in Gaucher disease type 1 (GD1) patients cause significant morbidity. Fracture risk may be decreased by enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) but not eliminated. When considering initiation of treatment, ...

    Authors: Patrick Deegan, Aneal Khan, José Simon Camelo Jr, Julie L. Batista and Neal Weinreb

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:92

    Content type: Research

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  40. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Muthuvel Jayachandran, Stanislav V. Yuzhakov, Sanjay Kumar, Nicholas B. Larson, Felicity T. Enders, Dawn S. Milliner, Andrew D. Rule and John C. Lieske

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:91

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2020 15:319

  41. Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a complex pathogenesis that includes vascular injury, abnormal immune activation, and tissue fibrosis. We provided a complete epidemiological chara...

    Authors: Alessio Coi, Simone Barsotti, Michele Santoro, Fabio Almerigogna, Elena Bargagli, Marzia Caproni, Giacomo Emmi, Bruno Frediani, Serena Guiducci, Marco Matucci Cerinic, Marta Mosca, Paola Parronchi, Renato Prediletto, Enrico Selvi, Gabriele Simonini, Antonio Gaetano Tavoni…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:90

    Content type: Research

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  42. One objective of the Belgian Rare Diseases plan is to improve patients’ management using phenotypic tests and, more specifically, the access to those tests by identifying the biochemical analyses used for rare...

    Authors: Nathalie M. Vandevelde, Pieter Vermeersch, Katrien M. J. Devreese, Marie-Françoise Vincent, Béatrice Gulbis, François Eyskens, François Boemer, André Gothot, Viviane O. Van Hoof, Carolien Bonroy, Hedwig Stepman, Geert A. Martens, Xavier Bossuyt, Laurence Roosens, Julie Smet, Hilde Laeremans…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:89

    Content type: Research

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  43. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic illness involving the central nervous system (CNS) that is characterised by inflammation, demyelination, and degenerative changes. Dalfampridine is one of the available tre...

    Authors: Enyao Zhang, Xin Tian, Ruoming Li, Chaoyang Chen, Min Li, Lingyun Ma, Ran Wei, Ying Zhou and Yimin Cui

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:87

    Content type: Review

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  44. Long-term prophylaxis with subcutaneous C1-inhibitor (C1-INH[SC]; HAEGARDA, CSL Behring) in patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE) due to C1-INH deficiency (C1-INH-HAE) was evaluated in an open-label exten...

    Authors: William R. Lumry, Bruce Zuraw, Marco Cicardi, Timothy Craig, John Anderson, Aleena Banerji, Jonathan A. Bernstein, Teresa Caballero, Henriette Farkas, Richard G. Gower, Paul K. Keith, Donald S. Levy, H. Henry Li, Markus Magerl, Michael Manning, Marc A. Riedl…

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:86

    Content type: Research

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  45. Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a clinical malignant syndrome mainly originating from the appendix, with an incidence of 2–4 per million people. As a rare disease, an early and accurate diagnosis of PMP is dif...

    Authors: Yu-Lin Lin, Da-Zhao Xu, Xin-Bao Li, Feng-Cai Yan, Hong-Bin Xu, Zheng Peng and Yan Li

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:85

    Content type: Review

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  46. In phenylketonuria (PKU), modified casein glycomacropeptide supplements (CGMP-AA) are used as an alternative to the traditional phenylalanine (Phe)-free L-amino acid supplements (L-AA). However, studies focusi...

    Authors: Maria João Pena, Alex Pinto, Manuela Ferreira de Almeida, Catarina de Sousa Barbosa, Paula Cristina Ramos, Sara Rocha, Arlindo Guimas, Rosa Ribeiro, Esmeralda Martins, Anabela Bandeira, Cláudia Camila Dias, Anita MacDonald, Nuno Borges and Júlio César Rocha

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:84

    Content type: Research

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  47. Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) is a multi-system disorder that may be associated with endocrine changes, oxidative stress in addition to inflammation. Studies suggest that selenium is a trace element related to p...

    Authors: Itana Gomes Alves Andrade, Fabíola Isabel Suano-Souza, Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca, Carolina Sanchez Aranda Lago and Roseli Oselka Saccardo Sarni

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:83

    Content type: Research

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  48. Pulmonary large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (pLCNEC) is a very rare malignancy originating from the lung and bronchus, and its biological behaviour, clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis are poorly und...

    Authors: Yeye Chen, Jiaqi Zhang, Cheng Huang, Zhenhuan Tian, Xiaoyun Zhou, Chao Guo, Hongsheng Liu and Shanqing Li

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:82

    Content type: Research

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  49. Cervical myelopathy and hydrocephalus occasionally occur in young children with achondroplasia. However, these conditions are not evaluated in a timely manner in many cases. The current study presents signifi...

    Authors: Youngbo Shim, Jung Min Ko, Tae-Joon Cho, Seung‐Ki Kim and Ji Hoon Phi

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:81

    Content type: Research

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  50. Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is an ultra-rare, progressive, genetic disease leading to impaired lysosomal function and neurodegeneration causing serious morbidity and shortened life expectancy.

    Authors: Marc C. Patterson, Lucy Lloyd-Price, Christina Guldberg, Helen Doll, Claire Burbridge, Michael Chladek, Christine íDali, Eugen Mengel and Tara Symonds

    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2021 16:79

    Content type: Research

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