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Despite neonatal screening, neurodevelopmental disorders are reported in some SMA patients
On 05/02/2024
The experts in charge of setting up newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in Germany have warned of a number of cases of developmental…
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Quantitative muscle imaging could be useful in assessing the impact of nusinersen in SMA
On 02/02/2024
Dutch researchers have tested magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of muscles as a possible tool for measuring the effectiveness of treatment of SMA with nusinersen (Spinraza)…
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The clinical spectrum of MELAS and associated diseases
On 02/02/2024
The Mayo Clinic team reviewed the records of 81 patients with characteristic clinical MELAS or with a positive genetic test for MELAS but without all…
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Proper use of paracetamol prescriptions in SMA
On 01/02/2024
Following problems of drug intolerance in patients with SMA who had received paracetamol for pain relief, Danish researchers undertook a pharmacokinetic study: six children and…
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Histopathology of THOC2 splice-site arthrogryposis shows filamentous cytoplasmic inclusions
On 01/02/2024
Following the description in 2021 of a family with X-linked arthrogryposis due to a mutation in the THOC2 gene, a French team reports : another…
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An ultra-early case of mitofusin 2 deficiency
On 31/01/2024
French researchers report the exceptional case of a foetus suffering from a deficiency in mitofusin 2, a mitochondrial protein encoded by the MFN2 gene already…
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Two new families with a rare form of CMT disease reported in Brazil
On 31/01/2024
Researchers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, report the clinical and paraclinical observations of two families diagnosed with X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease: mutations in the PKD3 gene,…
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McArdle’s disease: how to adapt to exercise intolerance
On 30/01/2024
An international online survey gathered the experience of 162 people with McArdle’s disease, with a median age of 52: the median age at diagnosis was…
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Oculo-pharyngo-distal myopathy: also look for CGG repeats in LOC642361/NUMTM2B-AS1
On 30/01/2024
Oculo-pharyngo-distal myopathy (OPDM) is due to a repeat of CGG triplets in the 5′ untranslated region of one of the LRP12, GIPC1, NOTCH2NLC or RILPL1…
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PTPN11: the missing link between RASopathies and congenital myasthenic syndromes?
On 30/01/2024
RASopathies are pathologies linked to genes in the RAS/MAPK pathway, including the gene encoding the PTPN11 protein (involved in half of Noonan syndromes). An international…
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The Institute of Myology, partner in the European Dreams project – Interview with Stéphane Vassilopoulos
On 29/01/2024
Dreams (Drug REpurposing and Artificial intelligence for Muscular disorderS) is an innovative project funded under a European call for tenders for 5 years, with the…
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A focus on complex cases of autosomal dominant titinopathies
On 29/01/2024
An international consortium of researchers coordinated by a team of geneticists from Montpellier and including researchers and clinicians from the Institute is reporting the clinical…
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Largest cohort of primary carnitine deficiency in the Faroe Islands treated with L-carnitine
On 29/01/2024
A 10-year follow-up of the world’s largest cohort of 139 patients with primary carnitine deficiency, located in the Faroe Islands, where the incidence is particularly…
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Nusinersen in Neuromuscular Disease Reference Centers
On 29/01/2024
Clinicians from the French network of neuromuscular disease specialists followed a cohort of 37 children treated with nusinersen (Spinraza) between the ages of 2 months…
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Fatty acid beta-oxidation disorders: a French retrospective study is optimistic despite the lack of treatment
On 26/01/2024
Analysis of retrospective data from 44 adults with fatty acid beta-oxidation deficiency followed up in six French centres of reference for rare neuromuscular or metabolic…
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RhoA is a key regulator of myoblast fusion
On 25/01/2024
Satellite cells (SCs) are adult muscle stem cells that are recruited when muscle homeostasis is disturbed. The RhoA GTPase is an important signalling enzyme involved…
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An update of European recommendations on the use of radiological contrast products in myasthenia gravis
On 25/01/2024
Myasthenia gravis is included in the “precautions for use” of iodinated contrast products because of a possible worsening of the symptoms of the disease caused…
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CMT 4J: heterogeneous clinical pictures where electrophysiology is not always sufficient for diagnosis
On 24/01/2024
Mutations in the FIG4 gene are responsible not only for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) 4J disease, but also for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson disease. In this…
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A review of serious digestive complications in adults with DMD
On 24/01/2024
Based on four emblematic individual cases of young adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a British team studied and reviewed life-threatening digestive complications: DMD patients…
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More gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders than expected in FSHD
On 24/01/2024
The results of a survey on facioscapulohumeral myopathy (FSHD) carried out by the FSHD Society among 701 adult respondents highlighted : difficulties swallowing food at…