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Neurol Genet ; 6(3): e425, 2020 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32582862

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OBJECTIVE: To expand the phenotypic spectrum of severity of POLR3-related leukodystrophy and identify genotype-phenotype correlations through study of patients with extremely severe phenotypes. METHODS: We performed an international cross-sectional study on patients with genetically proven POLR3-related leukodystrophy and atypical phenotypes to identify 6 children, 3 males and 3 females, with an extremely severe phenotype compared with that typically reported. Clinical, radiologic, and molecular features were evaluated for all patients, and functional and neuropathologic studies were performed on 1 patient. RESULTS: Each patient presented between 1 and 3 months of age with failure to thrive, severe dysphagia, and developmental delay. Four of the 6 children died before age 3 years. MRI of all patients revealed a novel pattern with atypical characteristics, including progressive basal ganglia and thalami abnormalities. Neuropathologic studies revealed patchy areas of decreased myelin in the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord, with astrocytic gliosis in the white matter and microglial activation. Cellular vacuolization was observed in the thalamus and basal ganglia, and neuronal loss was evident in the putamen and caudate. Genotypic similarities were also present between all 6 patients, with one allele containing a POLR3A variant causing a premature stop codon and the other containing a specific intronic splicing variant (c.1771-7C>G), which produces 2 aberrant transcripts along with some wild-type transcript. CONCLUSIONS: We describe genotype-phenotype correlations at the extreme end of severity of the POLR3-related leukodystrophy spectrum and shed light on the complex disease pathophysiology.

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J Neuroimaging ; 17(1): 78-80, 2007 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17238874

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Fat embolism syndrome complicates open fractures involving long bones, although it occasionally follows nontraumatic conditions. Incomplete forms of the syndrome (ie, cerebral fat embolism) represent a challenge to diagnosis, and brain MRI represents a valuable diagnostic tool. We describe a patient who had a fat embolism to the brain after an isolated traumatic open fracture of the tibia. MRI with T2 and diffusion-weighted images revealed multiple, reversible brain lesions, suggesting vasogenic edema and consistent with this entity. At present, MR imaging is the most sensitive technique to evaluate cerebral fat embolism.


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Imagem de Difusão por Ressonância Magnética , Embolia Gordurosa/diagnóstico , Embolia Intracraniana/diagnóstico , Encéfalo/patologia , Embolia Gordurosa/etiologia , Fraturas Expostas/complicações , Humanos , Embolia Intracraniana/etiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fraturas da Tíbia/complicações
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