Urea cycle disorders in Spain: an observational, cross-sectional and multicentric study of 104 cases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by multiple telangiectases and caused by germline disease-causing variants in the ENG (HHT1), ACVRL1 (HHT2) and, to a lesser extent MADH4 and GDF2, which encode proteins involved in the TGF-β/BMP9 signaling pathway. C...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Giraud S,Bardel C,Dupuis-Girod S,Carette MF,Gilbert-Dussardier B,Riviere S,Saurin JC,Eyries M,Patri S,Decullier E,Calender A,Lesca G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is now acknowledged that the input of patients in health outcome assessment is vital to understanding the impact of diseases and interventions for those diseases. This study is the first report of patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) in a large cohort of patients with type 1 Gaucher disease (GD1) enab...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Dinur T,Istaiti M,Frydman D,Becker-Cohen M,Szer J,Zimran A,Revel-Vilk S

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The trisomy 18 syndrome, also known as Edwards syndrome, is a common chromosomal disorder due to the presence of an extra chromosome 18, either full, mosaic trisomy, or partial trisomy 18q. The condition is the second most common autosomal trisomy syndrome after trisomy 21. The live born prevalence is estimated as 1/6...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Cereda A,Carey JC

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants presenting with lysosomal acid lipase deficiency have marked failure to thrive, diarrhea, massive hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, rapidly progressive liver disease, and death typically in the first 6 months of life; the only available potential treatment has been hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Jones SA,Rojas-Caro S,Quinn AG,Friedman M,Marulkar S,Ezgu F,Zaki O,Gargus JJ,Hughes J,Plantaz D,Vara R,Eckert S,Arnoux JB,Brassier A,Le Quan Sang KH,Valayannopoulos V

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term complications and associated conditions of type 1 Gaucher Disease (GD) can include splenectomy, bone complications, pulmonary hypertension, Parkinson disease and malignancies. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) reverses cytopenia and reduces organomegaly. To study the effects of ERT on long-term complications ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： van Dussen L,Biegstraaten M,Dijkgraaf MG,Hollak CE

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The vision loss in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy patients is due to mitochondrial DNA mutations. No treatment has shown a clear-cut benefit on a clinically meaningful end-point. However, clinical evidences suggest two therapeutic approaches: the reduction of the mutation load in heteroplasmic patients or...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Emperador S,López-Gallardo E,Hernández-Ainsa C,Habbane M,Montoya J,Bayona-Bafaluy MP,Ruiz-Pesini E

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myosin heavy chain 7 (MYH7)-related myopathies are emerging as an important group of muscle diseases of childhood and adulthood, with variable clinical and histopathological expression depending on the type and location of the mutation. Mutations in the head and neck domains are a well-established cause of h...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Fiorillo C,Astrea G,Savarese M,Cassandrini D,Brisca G,Trucco F,Pedemonte M,Trovato R,Ruggiero L,Vercelli L,D'Amico A,Tasca G,Pane M,Fanin M,Bello L,Broda P,Musumeci O,Rodolico C,Messina S,Vita GL,Sframeli M,Gibe

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder forming hamartomas throughout the body. Facial angiofibromas (FAs) occur in 75% of TSC patients, which are often enlarged, impairing the appearance of the face, and reducing the patient's quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study was t...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Hatano T,Ohno Y,Imai Y,Moritake J,Endo K,Tamari M,Egawa S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric chordomas are rare malignant tumours arising from primitive notochordal remnants with a high rate of recurrence. Only 5 % of them occur in the first two decades such less than 300 paediatric cases have been reported so far in the literature. In children, the average age at diagnosis is 10 years with a male-...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Beccaria K,Sainte-Rose C,Zerah M,Puget S

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A pattern of major and minor congenital anomalies, facial dysmorphic features, and neurodevelopmental difficulties, including cognitive and social impairments has been reported in some children exposed to sodium valproate (VPA) during pregnancy. Recognition of the increased risks of in utero exposure to VPA ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Clayton-Smith J,Bromley R,Dean J,Journel H,Odent S,Wood A,Williams J,Cuthbert V,Hackett L,Aslam N,Malm H,James G,Westbom L,Day R,Ladusans E,Jackson A,Bruce I,Walker R,Sidhu S,Dyer C,Ashworth J,Hindley D,Diaz G

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Segmental Xp22.2 monosomy or a heterozygous HCCS mutation is associated with the microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS) or MIDAS (microphthalmia, dermal aplasia, and sclerocornea) syndrome, an X-linked disorder with male lethality. HCCS encodes the holocytochrome c-type synthase involved in mitochondr...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： van Rahden VA,Rau I,Fuchs S,Kosyna FK,de Almeida HL Jr,Fryssira H,Isidor B,Jauch A,Joubert M,Lachmeijer AM,Zweier C,Moog U,Kutsche K

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea cycle disorders (UCDs) are inborn errors of ammonia detoxification/arginine synthesis due to defects affecting the catalysts of the Krebs-Henseleit cycle (five core enzymes, one activating enzyme and one mitochondrial ornithine/citrulline antiporter) with an estimated incidence of 1:8.000. Patients present with h...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Häberle J,Boddaert N,Burlina A,Chakrapani A,Dixon M,Huemer M,Karall D,Martinelli D,Crespo PS,Santer R,Servais A,Valayannopoulos V,Lindner M,Rubio V,Dionisi-Vici C

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isovaleric aciduria (IVA), propionic aciduria (PA) and methylmalonic aciduria (MMA) are inherited organic acidurias (OAs) in which impaired organic acid metabolism induces hyperammonaemia arising partly from secondary deficiency of N-acetylglutamate (NAG) synthase. Rapid reduction in plasma ammonia is requir...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Valayannopoulos V,Baruteau J,Delgado MB,Cano A,Couce ML,Del Toro M,Donati MA,Garcia-Cazorla A,Gil-Ortega D,Gomez-de Quero P,Guffon N,Hofstede FC,Kalkan-Ucar S,Coker M,Lama-More R,Martinez-Pardo Casanova M,Molina A,Picha

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:FBLN5-related cutis laxa (CL) is a rare disorder that involves elastic fiber-enriched tissues and is characterized by lax skin and variable systemic involvement such as pulmonary emphysema, arterial involvement, inguinal hernias, hollow viscus diverticula and pyloric stenosis. This type of CL follows mostly ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Gharesouran J,Hosseinzadeh H,Ghafouri-Fard S,Jabbari Moghadam Y,Ahmadian Heris J,Jafari-Rouhi AH,Taheri M,Rezazadeh M

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Segmental progeroid syndromes are a heterogeneous group of rare and often severe genetic disorders that have been studied since the twentieth century. These progeroid syndromes are defined as segmental because only some of the features observed during natural aging are accelerated. METHODS:Since 2015, the M...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Grelet M,Blanck V,Sigaudy S,Philip N,Giuliano F,Khachnaoui K,Morel G,Grotto S,Sophie J,Poirsier C,Lespinasse J,Alric L,Calvas P,Chalhoub G,Layet V,Molin A,Colson C,Marsili L,Edery P,Lévy N,De Sandre-Giovannoli A

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum-Cockayne syndrome complex is a very rare multisystem degenerative disorder (Orpha: 220295; OMIM: 278730, 278760, 278780, 610651). Published information on XP-CS is mostly scattered throughout the literature. We compiled statistics related to symptom prevalence in XP-CS and have written a clinical...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Natale V,Raquer H

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency remain undiagnosed and therefore do not benefit from current therapies or become eligible for research studies of new treatments under development. Improving the detection rate for AATD is therefore a high priority for the Alpha-1 Foundation. A workshop was h...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Brantly M,Campos M,Davis AM,D'Armiento J,Goodman K,Hanna K,O'Day M,Queenan J,Sandhaus R,Stoller J,Strange C,Teckman J,Wanner A

更新日期：2020-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyper-IgE syndromes are rare, complex primary immunodeficiencies characterized by clinical manifestation diversity, by particular susceptibility to staphylococcal and mycotic infections as well as by a heterogeneous genetic origin. Two distinct entities--the classical hyper-IgE syndrome which is inherited in an au...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Szczawinska-Poplonyk A,Kycler Z,Pietrucha B,Heropolitanska-Pliszka E,Breborowicz A,Gerreth K

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report a 6.5 year-old female with a homozygous missense mutation in ZFYVE20, encoding Rabenosyn-5 (Rbsn-5), a highly conserved multi-domain protein implicated in receptor-mediated endocytosis. The clinical presentation includes intractable seizures, developmental delay, microcephaly, dysostosis, osteopeni...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Stockler S,Corvera S,Lambright D,Fogarty K,Nosova E,Leonard D,Steinfeld R,Ackerley C,Shyr C,Au N,Selby K,van Allen M,Vallance H,Wevers R,Watkins D,Rosenblatt D,Ross CJ,Conibear E,Wasserman W,van Karnebeek C

更新日期：2014-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morquio A syndrome (or mucopolysaccharidosis IVa) is an ultra-rare multi-organ disease, resulting in significantly impaired functional capacity, mobility and quality of life (QoL). METHODS:This patient-reported outcomes survey evaluated the global burden of Morquio A among adults (≥18 years, N = 27) and chi...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Hendriksz CJ,Lavery C,Coker M,Ucar SK,Jain M,Bell L,Lampe C

更新日期：2014-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of thymectomy in patients with non-thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is still unclear. Main limitations have been variable outcome definitions, lack of a control group and adjustment for confounding. OBJECTIVE:To study the efficacy of thymectomy in achieving remission or minimal manifestation ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Barnett C,Katzberg HD,Keshavjee S,Bril V

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a rare, congenital, plurimalformative, and neurodevelopmental disorder. Previous studies have reported that large deletions contribute to more severe RTS phenotypes than those caused by CREBBP point mutations, suggesting a concurrent pathogenetic role of flanking genes, typ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Wu Y,Xia Y,Li P,Qu HQ,Liu Y,Yang Y,Lin J,Zheng M,Tian L,Wu Z,Huang S,Qin X,Zhou X,Chen S,Liu Y,Wang Y,Li X,Zeng H,Hakonarson H,Zhuang J

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatic macrophage (Kupffer cell) hyperplasia is often described in Wilson's disease (WD). In many liver diseases, Kupffer cell activation is related to disease severity, liver function, and fibrosis but the importance in WD is unknown. Kupffer cell activation can be assessed by the P-concentration of solubl...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Björklund J,Laursen TL,Sandahl TD,Møller HJ,Vilstrup H,Ott P,Grønbæk H

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While skin carcinomas are reported in chronic ulcers and in patients treated with hydroxyurea (HU) for myeloproliferative neoplasms, no skin carcinoma has been reported in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), presenting chronic skin ulcers or treated with HU. The objective was to estimate the risk of cut...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Soutou B,Senet P,Lionnet F,Habibi A,Aractingi S

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) is a rare genodermatosis with severe blistering. No curative treatment is available. Scientific data indicated that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a green tea extract, might improve the phenotype of RDEB patients. In a multicentre, randomized, crossover, ...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Chiaverini C,Roger C,Fontas E,Bourrat E,Bourdon-Lanoy E,Labrèze C,Mazereeuw J,Vabres P,Bodemer C,Lacour JP

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamartomatous Polyposis Syndromes (HPS) are genetic syndromes, which include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Juvenile polyposis syndrome, PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome (Cowden Syndrom, Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba and Proteus Syndrome) as well as hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. Other syndromes such as Gorlin Syndrome and mu...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Jelsig AM,Qvist N,Brusgaard K,Nielsen CB,Hansen TP,Ousager LB

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rare diseases are individually rare but globally affect around 6% of the population, and in over 70% of cases are genetically determined. Their rarity translates into a delayed diagnosis, with 25% of patients waiting 5 to 30 years for one. It is essential to raise awareness of patients and clinicians of exis...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Atalaia A,Thompson R,Corvo A,Carmody L,Piscia D,Matalonga L,Macaya A,Lochmuller A,Fontaine B,Zurek B,Hernandez-Ferrer C,Rheinard C,Gómez-Andrés D,Desaphy JF,Schon K,Lohmann K,Jennings MJ,Synofzik M,Riess O,Yaou RB,

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:IgG replacement therapy (IgRT) in primary immunodeficiencies (PID) is a lifelong treatment which may be administered intravenously (IVIg) or subcutaneously (SCIg), at hospital or at home. The objective of the VISAGE study was to investigate if route and/or place for IgRT impact patients' satisfaction regardi...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Bienvenu B,Cozon G,Hoarau C,Pasquet M,Cherin P,Clerson P,Hachulla E,Crave JC,Delain JC,Jaussaud R

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorectal malformations comprise a wide spectrum of diseases, which can affect boys and girls, and involve the distal anus and rectum as well as the urinary and genital tracts. They occur in approximately 1 in 5000 live births. Defects range from the very minor and easily treated with an excellent functional prognosis...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Levitt MA,Peña A

更新日期：2007-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Orphan designated medicinal products benefit from regulatory and economic incentives for orphan drug development. Approximately 40% of orphan designations target rare neoplastic disorders, referring to rare cancers. In order to provide more insights in drugs for rare neoplastic disorders that are under devel...

journal_title：Orphanet journal of rare diseases

authors： Pauwels K,Huys I,Casteels M,Larsson K,Voltz C,Penttila K,Morel T,Simoens S

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00