Abstract | OBJECTIVE: STUDY DESIGN: Sixty-four patients with NPD-B had detailed neurologic and ophthalmologic evaluations. The presence of neurologic abnormalities was compared with genotype. RESULTS: Nineteen of 64 patients (30%) had neurologic abnormalities, which were minor and nonprogressive in 14 (22%), and global and progressive in 5 (8%). In these five patients, the onset of neurologic difficulties occurred between 2 and 7 years of age and was associated with peripheral neuropathy, retinal abnormalities, and the Q292K mutation. No patients with at least one copy of DeltaR608 had neurologic involvement. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of patients with NPD-B have no neurologic abnormalities. In patients with neurologic abnormalities, the findings can be minor and static or severe and progressive. The latter phenotype follows a course distinct from that of classic NPD-A and is associated with the Q292K mutation and characteristic retinal findings. Thus, similar to other lysosomal storage disorders, there is a broad spectrum of neurologic abnormalities in acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, which makes the current classification scheme inaccurate.
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Authors | Melissa P Wasserstein, Alan Aron, Scott E Brodie, Calogera Simonaro, Robert J Desnick, Margaret M McGovern |
Journal | The Journal of pediatrics
(J Pediatr)
Vol. 149
Issue 4
Pg. 554-9
(Oct 2006)
ISSN: 0022-3476 [Print] United States |
PMID | 17011332
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
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Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nervous System Diseases
(epidemiology, etiology, genetics)
- Niemann-Pick Diseases
(complications, genetics)
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
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