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  1. Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II) is the most frequently occurring MPS in Taiwan, with an incidence of 2.05 per 100,000 live male births, but little is known about clinical characteristics and surgical hi...

    Authors: Hsiang-Yu Lin, Chih-Kuang Chuang, Ming-Ren Chen, Shio Jean Lin, Pao Chin Chiu, Dau-Ming Niu, Fuu-Jen Tsai, Wuh-Liang Hwu, Yin-Hsiu Chien, Ju-Li Lin and Shuan-Pei Lin
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:89
  2. α-mannosidosis is a rare, autosomal-recessive, lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficient activity of α-mannosidase. Typical symptoms include intellectual, motor and hearing impairment, facial coarsening,...

    Authors: Juliane Matlach, Thea Zindel, Yasmina Amraoui, Laila Arash-Kaps, Julia B. Hennermann and Susanne Pitz
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:88
  3. ATP8A2 mutations have recently been described in several patients with severe, early-onset hypotonia and cognitive impairment. The aim of our study was to characterize the clinical phenotype of patients with ATP8...

    Authors: Hugh J. McMillan, Aida Telegrafi, Amanda Singleton, Megan T. Cho, Daniel Lelli, Francis C. Lynn, Julie Griffin, Alexander Asamoah, Tuula Rinne, Corrie E. Erasmus, David A. Koolen, Charlotte A. Haaxma, Boris Keren, Diane Doummar, Cyril Mignot, Islay Thompson…
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:86
  4. Secondary use of data collected in Electronic Health Records opens perspectives for increasing our knowledge of rare diseases. The clinical data warehouse (named Dr. Warehouse) at the Necker-Enfants Malades Ch...

    Authors: Nicolas Garcelon, Antoine Neuraz, Rémi Salomon, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Jeanne Amiel, Capucine Picard, Nizar Mahlaoui, Vincent Benoit, Anita Burgun and Bastien Rance
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:85
  5. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are lysosomal storage diseases in which mutations of genes encoding for lysosomal enzymes cause defects in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). The accumulation of GAGs in ...

    Authors: Chih-Kuang Chuang, Hsiang-Yu Lin, Tuan-Jen Wang, You-Hsin Huang, Min-Ju Chan, Hsuan-Chieh Liao, Yun-Ting Lo, Li-Yun Wang, Ru-Yi Tu, Yi-Ya Fang, Tzu-Lin Chen, Hui-Chen Ho, Chuan-Chi Chiang and Shuan-Pei Lin
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:84
  6. Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) and autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBD) describe a group of rare chronic dermatoses characterized by cutaneous fragility and blistering. Although uncommon, significant ocular surfa...

    Authors: Brendon W. H. Lee, Jeremy C. K. Tan, Melissa Radjenovic, Minas T. Coroneo and Dedee F. Murrell
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:83
  7. Pompe disease is a rare metabolic myopathy. In adult patients, progressive weakness of limb-girdle and respiratory muscles often leads to wheelchair and respirator dependency. Clinical studies have shown enzym...

    Authors: Jan C. van der Meijden, Michelle E. Kruijshaar, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Pieter A. van Doorn, Nadine A. M. E. van der Beek and Ans T. van der Ploeg
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:82
  8. Composite endpoints are recommended in rare diseases to increase power and/or to sufficiently capture complexity. Often, they are in the form of responder indices which contain a mixture of continuous and bina...

    Authors: Martina McMenamin, Anna Berglind and James M. S. Wason
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:81
  9. The first subjects with deficiency of mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (WARS2) were reported in 2017. Their clinical characteristics can be subdivided into three phenotypes (neonatal phenotype, sever...

    Authors: Elise Vantroys, Joél Smet, Arnaud V. Vanlander, Sarah Vergult, Ruth De Bruyne, Frank Roels, Hedwig Stepman, Herbert Roeyers, Björn Menten and Rudy Van Coster
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:80
  10. Alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency (AATD) of Z, Mmalton, Siiyama type is associated with liver storage of the mutant proteins and liver disease. The Z variant can be diagnosed on isoelectric focusing (IEF) w...

    Authors: Francesco Callea, Isabella Giovannoni, Paola Francalanci, Renata Boldrini, Gavino Faa, Daniela Medicina, Valerio Nobili, Valeer J. Desmet, Kamal Ishak, Kuniaki Seyama and Emanuele Bellacchio
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:79
  11. Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is a recently recognized inherited multiple cystic lung disease causing recurrent pneumothoraces. Similarly to the lesions in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), the pu...

    Authors: Teruaki Mizobuchi, Masatoshi Kurihara, Hiroki Ebana, Sumitaka Yamanaka, Hideyuki Kataoka, Shouichi Okamoto, Etsuko Kobayashi, Toshio Kumasaka and Kuniaki Seyama
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:78
  12. IDeAl (Integrated designs and analysis of small population clinical trials) is an EU funded project developing new statistical design and analysis methodologies for clinical trials in small population groups. ...

    Authors: Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, Malgorzata Bogdan, Carl-Fredrik Burman, Holger Dette, Mats Karlsson, Franz König, Christoph Male, France Mentré, Geert Molenberghs and Stephen Senn
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:77
  13. Hurler syndrome (MPS IH), the severe, neurodegenerative form of type one mucopolysaccharidosis, is associated with rapid neurocognitive decline during toddlerhood and multi-system dysfunction. It is now standa...

    Authors: Elsa G. Shapiro, Chester B. Whitley and Julie B. Eisengart
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:76
  14. Naxos disease, first described by Dr. Nikos Protonotarios and colleagues on the island of Naxos, Greece, is a special form of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD). It is an inherited condition wit...

    Authors: Guo-Liang Li, Ardan M. Saguner and Guy H. Fontaine
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:74
  15. Fibrous dysplasia of the proximal femur presents with heterogeneous clinical manifestations dictating different surgical approaches. However, to date there are no clear recommendations to guide the choice of s...

    Authors: Bas C. J. Majoor, Andreas Leithner, Michiel A. J. van de Sande, Natasha M. Appelman-Dijkstra, Neveen A. T. Hamdy and P. D. Sander Dijkstra
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:72
  16. Epilepsy is a heterogeneous disease with a broad phenotypic spectrum and diverse genotypes. A significant proportion of epilepsies has a genetic aetiology.

    Authors: David Staněk, Petra Laššuthová, Katalin Štěrbová, Markéta Vlčková, Jana Neupauerová, Marcela Krůtová and Pavel Seeman
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:71
  17. GNE myopathy is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive disease, which starts as a distal muscle weakness and ultimately leads to a wheelchair bound state. Molecular research and animal modelling significantly moved...

    Authors: Oksana Pogoryelova, José Andrés González Coraspe, Nikoletta Nikolenko, Hanns Lochmüller and Andreas Roos
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:70
  18. Vitamin A intoxication is a rare cause of liver disease, but the risk increases in patients with underlying liver dysfunction. We present a patient with Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome who developed liver fibrosis,...

    Authors: Giorgia Bucciol, David Cassiman, Tania Roskams, Marleen Renard, Ilse Hoffman, Peter Witters, Rik Schrijvers, Heidi Schaballie, Barbara Bosch, Maria Caterina Putti, Olivier Gheysens, Noel Knops, Marc Gewillig, Djalila Mekahli, Jacques Pirenne and Isabelle Meyts
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:69
  19. Fabry disease is frequently characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhea. Migalastat is an orally-administered small molecule approved to treat the symptoms of Fabry disease in patients with ...

    Authors: Raphael Schiffmann, Daniel G. Bichet, Ana Jovanovic, Derralynn A. Hughes, Roberto Giugliani, Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, Suma P. Shankar, Laura Barisoni, Robert B. Colvin, J. Charles Jennette, Fred Holdbrook, Andrew Mulberg, Jeffrey P. Castelli, Nina Skuban, Jay A. Barth and Kathleen Nicholls
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:68
  20. A Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) technique was adopted to reveal the preferences of the Appraisal Body of the Polish HTA agency towards orphan drugs (OMPs).

    Authors: Katarzyna Kolasa, Krzysztof Miroslaw Zwolinski, Vladimir Zah, Zoltán Kaló and Tadeusz Lewandowski
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:67
  21. In spite of recent major advances in the understanding and treatment of inhibitor development in patients with haemophilia, multidisciplinary management of many of these patients remains suboptimal and highly ...

    Authors: P. L. F. Giangrande, C. Hermans, B. O’Mahony, P. de Kleijn, M. Bedford, A. Batorova, J. Blatný and K. Jansone
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:66
  22. Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency leads to an accumulation of toxic purine degradation by-products, most potently affecting lymphocytes, leading to adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodefici...

    Authors: Aisling M. Flinn and Andrew R. Gennery
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:65
  23. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the most common genetic human obesity syndrome and is characterized by hypotonia, endocrine disturbances, hyperphagia, obesity and mild mental retardation. Oral abnormalities, su...

    Authors: Ronnaug Saeves, Finn Strøm, Leiv Sandvik and Hilde Nordgarden
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:64
  24. Infants and children with syndromic craniosynostosis (SCS), such as Apert-, Crouzon- or Pfeiffer syndrome, are prone to sleep disordered breathing (SDB) including obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resis...

    Authors: Silvia Müller-Hagedorn, Cornelia Wiechers, Jörg Arand, Wolfgang Buchenau, Margit Bacher, Michael Krimmel, Siegmar Reinert and Christian F. Poets
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:63
  25. Optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) are present in 20% of children with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) but are less frequently observed in adults. Our goal was to determine the natural history of OPGs in children and adul...

    Authors: Laura Sellmer, Said Farschtschi, Marco Marangoni, Manraj K. S. Heran, Patricia Birch, Ralph Wenzel, Victor-Felix Mautner and Jan M. Friedman
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:62
  26. Rare diseases can lead to a significant reduction in quality of life for patients and their families. Ensuring the patients voice is central to clinical decision making is key to delivering, evaluating and und...

    Authors: Anita Slade, Fatima Isa, Derek Kyte, Tanya Pankhurst, Larissa Kerecuk, James Ferguson, Graham Lipkin and Melanie Calvert
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:61
  27. Pulmonary hemosiderosis is a rare and complex disease in children. A previous study from the French RespiRare® network led to two important findings: 20% of the children presented with both pulmonary hemosider...

    Authors: Aurelia Alimi, Jessica Taytard, Rola Abou Taam, Véronique Houdouin, Aude Forgeron, Marc Lubrano Lavadera, Pierrick Cros, Isabelle Gibertini, Jocelyne Derelle, Antoine Deschildre, Caroline Thumerelle, Ralph Epaud, Philippe Reix, Michael Fayon, Sylvie Roullaud, Françoise Troussier…
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:60
  28. Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) is a rare disease. Knowledge on the quality of life (QoL) and the disease’s societal impact is limited. Canakinumab is used in increasing frequency for the treatme...

    Authors: Catharina M. Mulders-Manders, Tim A. Kanters, Paul L. A. van Daele, Esther Hoppenreijs, G. Elizabeth Legger, Jan A. M. van Laar, Anna Simon and Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:59
  29. Lysosomal α-glucosidase deficiency (Pompe disease) not only leads to glycogen accumulation in skeletal muscle, but also in the cerebral arteries. Dolichoectasia of the basilar artery (BA) has been frequently r...

    Authors: Ole Hensel, Ilka Schneider, Mathias Wieprecht, Torsten Kraya and Stephan Zierz
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:57
  30. Epidermal necrolysis (EN) encompasses Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS, < 10% of the skin affected), Lyell syndrome (toxic epidermal necrolysis, TEN, with ≥30% of the skin affected) and an overlap syndrome (10 to...

    Authors: Saskia Ingen-Housz-Oro, Tu-Anh Duong, Benoit Bensaid, Nathalia Bellon, Nicolas de Prost, Dévy Lu, Bénédicte Lebrun-Vignes, Julie Gueudry, Emilie Bequignon, Karim Zaghbib, Gérard Royer, Audrey Colin, Giao Do-Pham, Christine Bodemer, Nicolas Ortonne, Annick Barbaud…
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:56
  31. Autoantibodies against the smaller isoform of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD65Ab) reflect autoimmune etiologies in Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and several neurological disorders, including Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)....

    Authors: Suvi Liimatainen, Jerome Honnorat, Sean J. Pittock, Andrew McKeon, Mario Manto, Jared R. Radtke and Christiane S. Hampe
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:55
  32. Infantile and late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are lysosomal storage diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS). The infantile NCL (INCL) is caused by mutations in the PPT1 gene and l...

    Authors: Ni Sima, Rong Li, Wei Huang, Miao Xu, Jeanette Beers, Jizhong Zou, Steven Titus, Elizabeth A. Ottinger, Juan J. Marugan, Xing Xie and Wei Zheng
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:54
  33. Fabry disease is a multisystemic lysosomal storage disorder caused by the impairment of α-galactosidase A. The incidence of this rare disease is underestimated due to delayed diagnosis. Moreover, the managemen...

    Authors: Irene Vieitez, Olga Souto-Rodriguez, Lorena Fernandez-Mosquera, Beatriz San Millan, Susana Teijeira, Julian Fernandez-Martin, Felisa Martinez-Sanchez, Luis Jose Aldamiz-Echevarria, Monica Lopez-Rodriguez, Carmen Navarro and Saida Ortolano
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:52
  34. Hereditary angioedema with C1 inhibitor deficiency is a disabling, potentially fatal condition characterized by recurrent episodes of swelling. Self-treatment is recommended, in order to reduce admissions to t...

    Authors: Andrea Zanichelli, Giulia Maria Azin, Federico Cristina, Romualdo Vacchini and Teresa Caballero
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:51
  35. Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) is a progressive and life limiting autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in either the NPC1 or NPC2 gene. Mutations in these genes are associated with abnormal endosomal-lysos...

    Authors: Tarekegn Geberhiwot, Alessandro Moro, Andrea Dardis, Uma Ramaswami, Sandra Sirrs, Mercedes Pineda Marfa, Marie T. Vanier, Mark Walterfang, Shaun Bolton, Charlotte Dawson, Bénédicte Héron, Miriam Stampfer, Jackie Imrie, Christian Hendriksz, Paul Gissen, Ellen Crushell…
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:50
  36. Strimvelis (autologous CD34+ cells transduced to express adenosine deaminase [ADA]) is the first ex vivo stem cell gene therapy approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), indicated as a single treatment ...

    Authors: Heide Stirnadel-Farrant, Mahesh Kudari, Nadia Garman, Jessica Imrie, Bikramjit Chopra, Stefania Giannelli, Michela Gabaldo, Ambra Corti, Stefano Zancan, Alessandro Aiuti, Maria Pia Cicalese, Rohit Batta, Jonathan Appleby, Mario Davinelli and Pauline Ng
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:49
  37. The study aim was to verify the feasibility of a diagnostic algorithm with the evaluation of beta glucocerebrosidase (GBA) activity on dried blood spots (DBS) in screening high-risk Gaucher disease (GD) childr...

    Authors: Ke Lei, Yanxia Zhao, Lirong Sun, Hui Liang, Ronghua Luo, Xiaojing Sun, Yanling Tao, Lijun Chen, Lingling Zhang, Aimin Li, Fu Li and Hongfang Ding
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:48
  38. Hajdu-Cheney syndrome (HCS) (#OMIM 102500) is a rare, autosomal dominant condition that presents in early childhood. It is caused by mutations in the terminal exon of NOTCH2, which encodes the transmembrane NOTCH...

    Authors: James F. H. Pittaway, Christopher Harrison, Yumie Rhee, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Alan E. Fryer, Tim Cundy, William M. Drake and Melita D. Irving
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:47

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  39. Acitretin is the main retinoid used to treat severe inherited ichthyosis. Alternatives may be considered if it results ineffective or there are side-effects, or for women of childbearing age.

    Authors: Giuliana Onnis, Christine Chiaverini, Geoffroy Hickman, Isabelle Dreyfus, Judith Fischer, Emmanuelle Bourrat and Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:46
  40. KARS encodes lysyl- transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase, which catalyzes the aminoacylation of tRNA-Lys in the cytoplasm and mitochondria. Eleven families/sporadic patients and 16 different mutations in K...

    Authors: Anna Ardissone, Davide Tonduti, Andrea Legati, Eleonora Lamantea, Rita Barone, Imen Dorboz, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Gabriella Nebbia, Marco Maggioni, Barbara Garavaglia, Isabella Moroni, Laura Farina, Anna Pichiecchio, Simona Orcesi, Luisa Chiapparini and Daniele Ghezzi
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:45
  41. The reversal of the Rett syndrome disease process in the Mecp2 mouse model of Guy et al. (2007) has motivated families and researchers to work on this condition. The reversibility in adult mice suggests that t...

    Authors: Angus John Clarke and Ana Paula Abdala Sheikh
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:44
  42. Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by the development of numerous benign tumors. Renal angiomyolipoma (RAML) occur in up to 80% of TSC patients, which ...

    Authors: Yi Cai, Hao Guo, Wenda Wang, Hanzhong Li, Hao Sun, Bing Shi and Yushi Zhang
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:43
  43. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a hereditary multisystem disorder with oculocutaneous albinism, may be caused by mutations in one of at least 10 separate genes. The HPS-2 subtype is distinguished by the prese...

    Authors: Meike Hengst, Lutz Naehrlich, Poornima Mahavadi, Joerg Grosse-Onnebrink, Suzanne Terheggen-Lagro, Lars Høsøien Skanke, Luise A. Schuch, Frank Brasch, Andreas Guenther, Simone Reu, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan and Matthias Griese
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:42
  44. Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms and dissection often develop in hypertensive elderly patients. At higher risk are smokers and those who have a family history of aortic aneurysms. In most affected famil...

    Authors: Adel Shalata, Mohammad Mahroom, Dianna M. Milewicz, Gong Limin, Fadi Kassum, Khader Badarna, Nader Tarabeih, Nimmer Assy, Rona Fell, Hector Cohen, Munir Nashashibi, Alejandro Livoff, Muhammad Azab, George Habib, Dan Geiger, Omer Weissbrod…
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:41
  45. Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal dominant disorder mainly due to a deletion of chromosome 17p11.2 including PMP22 (PMP22 Del HNPP). The prevalence of HNPP is estimat...

    Authors: Jong Eun Park, Seung-Jae Noh, Mijin Oh, Dae-Yeon Cho, So Young Kim and Chang-Seok Ki
    Citation: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2018 13:40