Sarandría, María Eugenia; Rey, Roberto; De Rosa, Rodrigo; Corbalán, Vanesa; Mesa, Lilia(Fundación Revista Medicina (Buenos Aires), 2024)
Introduction: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
is an inherited, X-linked neuromuscular disorder with a
global cumulative prevalence of 7.1 cases every 100 000
males. A relationship between consanguinity and DMD
has ...
Khella, Sami; Marques, Wilson; Chao, Chi-Chao; Yesim Parman, Fatma; Franca, Marcondes C.; Guo, Yuh-Cherng; Ro, Long-Sun; Calandra, Cristian; Kowacs, Pedro A.; Berk, John L.; Piera Obici, Laura; Barroso, Fabio Adrián; Conceição, Isabel; Schneider, Eugene; Viney, Nicholas J.; Dyck, P. James B.; Waddington Cruz, Marcia; Coelho, Teresa(American Academy of Neurology, 2023-04-24)
Background
ATTRv-PN is a rare, progressive, and debilitating disease caused by accumulation of amyloid fibrils composed of transthyretin (TTR) protein in multiple organ systems. Eplontersen, a ligand-conjugated antisense ...
Background: Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) is a progressive, multisystemic, life-threatening disease resulting from the deposition of variant or wild-type (ATTRwt amyloidosis) transthyretin amyloid fibrils ...
Introduction: Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) is primarily associated with a cardiac or neurologic phenotype, but a mixed phenotype is increasingly described.
Methods: This study describes the mixed phenotype ...
Castiglione, Juan Ignacio; Crespo, José Manuel; Bendersky, Mariana; Silveira, Facundo Oscar; Lecchini, Lucila; Luis, María Belén; Caiza Zambrano, Francisco; Cotti, Norberto; Simison, Conrado J.; Aguirre, Florencia; Piedrabuena, María Agustina; Alonso, Ricardo; Azcona, Carolina Laura; Sosa, Pablo Sebastian; Maldonado, Evangelina; Varela, Francisco José; Bettini, Mariela; Rey, Roberto D.; León Cejas, Luciana; Barroso, Fabio Adrián(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2023-09-01)
In the context of the global vaccination campaign against COVID-19, several cases of postvaccinal Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) were reported. Whether a causal relationship exists between these events has yet to be ...
Importance: Transthyretin gene silencing is an emerging treatment strategy for hereditary transthyretin (ATTRv) amyloidosis.
Objective: To evaluate eplontersen, an investigational ligand-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide, ...
Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) is a progressive, multi-systemic disease with wild-type (ATTRwt) and hereditary (ATTRv) forms. Over 130 variants associated with ATTRv amyloidosis have been identified, although ...
Objective: To describe the heterogeneity of electrodiagnostic (EDx) studies in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) patients collected as part of the International GBS Outcome Study (IGOS).
Methods: Prospectively collected ...
Al-Hakem, Helle; Doets, Alex Y.; Stino, Amro Maher; Zivkovic, Sasha A.; Andersen, Henning; Willison, Hugh J.; Cornblath, David R.; Gorson, Kenneth C.; Islam, Zhahirul; Mohammad, Quazi Deen; Sindrup, Soren H.; Kusunoki, Susumu; Davidson, Amy; Casasnovas, Carlos; Bateman, Kathleen J.; Miller, James A. L.; Van den Berg, Bianca; Verboon, Christine; Roodbol, Joyce; Barroso, Fabio Adrián(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2023-04-19)
Background and Objectives
To investigate CSF findings in relation to clinical and electrodiagnostic subtypes, severity, and outcome of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) based on 1,500 patients in the International GBS Outcome ...
Castiglione, Juan Ignacio; Crespo, Marcos José; Lecchini, Lucila; Silveira, F.O.; Luis, María Belén; Cotti, Norberto; Simison, Conrado J.; Aguirre, Florencia; Piedrabuena, María Agustina; Alonso, R. N.; Azcona, Carolina Laura; Sosa, Pablo Sebastian; Maldonado, Evangelina; Barroso, Fabio Adrián(Pergamon Press, 2022-07)
Several cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) associated with COVID-19 vaccination have been reported, including the rare subtype known as Bilateral Facial Palsy with paresthesias (BFP). To date, it is not known whether ...
Carretero, Marcelina; Sáez, María S.; Posadas Martínez, María L.; Aguirre, María A.; Sorroche, Patricia; Negro, Agustina; Calandra, Cristian R.; Salutto, Valeria L.; Lautre, Andrea Rosana; Conti, Eugenia; León Cejas, Luciana; Reisin, Ricardo C.; Nucifora, Elsa M.; Rugiero, Marcelo(Fundación Revista Medicina (Buenos Aires), 2022)
This clinical practice guideline for the treatment of familial amyloid polyneuropathy is based on the best available evidence of clinical effectiveness. A list of questions was generated with a PICO format focused on the ...
Background: Autonomic dysfunction is common in transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis), but its frequency, characteristics, and quality-of-life (QoL) impact are not well understood.
Methods: The Transthyretin ...
Freeman, Roy; González-Duarte, Alejandra; Barroso, Fabio Adrián; Campagnolo, Marta; Rajan, Sharika; Garcia, Jennifer; Young Kim, Jee; Wang, Ningshan; Orellana, Lucas Gabriel; Gibbons, Christopher(Wiley Periodicals, 2022-09)
Objective: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of cutaneous amyloid deposition in relation to patient-reported measures in the earliest disease stage of hereditary ATTR amyloidosis (ATTRv).
Methods: In a ...
Castiglione, Juan Ignacio; Rivero, Alberto Daniel; Barroso, Fabio Adrián; Brand, Patricio; Lautre, Andrea Rosana; Kohler, Alejandro Alfredo(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2022-08-31)
Objetive: Rituximab (RTX) is a therapeutic option, for patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) not responding to conventional immunosuppressive treatment. In this cohort, we evaluated long-term efficacy of RTX in the treatment ...
Leonhard, Sonja E.; van der Eijk, Annemiek A.; Andersen, Henning; Antonini, Giovanni; Arends, Samuel; Attarian, Shahram; Barroso, Fabio Adrián; Bateman, Kathleen J.; Batstra, Manou R.; Benedetti, Luana; Van den Berg, Bianca; van den Bergh, Peter; Bürmann, Jan; Busby, Mark; Casasnovas, Carlos; Cornblath, David R.; Davidson, Amy; Doets, Alex Y.; A van Doorn, Pieter; Dornonville de la Cour, Charlotte(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022-08-18)
Background and objectives: Infections play a key role in the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and have been associated with specific clinical features and disease severity. The clinical variation of GBS across ...
Alessandro, Lucas; Castiglione, Juan Ignacio; Brand, Patricio; Bruno, Verónica; Barroso, Fabio Adrián(Associacao Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquitria Dr Oswaldo Lange, 2022-05)
Background: A treatment-related fluctuation (TRF) in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is defined as clinical deterioration within two months of symptom onset following previous stabilization or improvements ...
Background and objectives: The clinical course and outcome of the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are diverse and vary among regions. The modified Erasmus GBS Outcome Score (mEGOS), developed with data from Dutch patients, ...
Background: Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) is a rare, life-threatening disease caused by the accumulation of variant or wild-type (ATTRwt amyloidosis) transthyretin amyloid fibrils in the heart, peripheral ...