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1. Real-world multidisciplinary outcomes of onasemnogene abeparvovec monotherapy in patients with spinal muscular atrophy type 1: experience of the French cohort in the first three years of treatment

Author: Isabelle Desguerre, Rémi Barrois, Frédérique Audic, Christine Barnerias, Brigitte Chabrol, Jean Baptiste Davion, Julien Durigneux, Caroline Espil-Taris, Marta Gomez-Garcia de la Banda, Marine Guichard, Arnaud Isapof, Marie Christine Nougues, Vincent Laugel, Laure Le Goff, Sandra Mercier, Anne Pervillé, Christian Richelme, Marie Thibaud, Catherine Sarret, Cyril Schweitzer, Hervé Testard, Valérie Trommsdorff, Catherine Vanhulle, Ulrike Walther-Louvier, Cécilia Altuzarra, Mondher Chouchane, Juliette Ropars, Susana Quijano-Roy, and Claude Cances
Subjects: Spinal muscular atrophy, Gene transfer therapy, Real-world outcome, Medicine
Abstract: Abstract Background Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1) is the most severe and early form of SMA, a genetic disease with motor neuron degeneration. Onasemnogene abeparvovec gene transfer therapy (GT) has changed the natural history of SMA1, but real-world data are scarce. Methods A French national expert committee identified 95 newly diagnosed treatment-naive SMA1 patients between June 2019 and June 2022. We prospectively report on children treated with GT as the first and only therapy who had more than one-year of follow-up. Results Forty-six SMA1 patients received GT. Twelve patients received other treatments. Patients with respiratory insufficiency were oriented toward palliative care after discussion with families. Twenty-nine of the treated patients with more than 12 months of follow-up were included in the follow-up analysis. Among them, 17 had 24 months of follow-up. The mean age at treatment was 7.5 (2.1–12.5) months. Twenty-two patients had two SMN2 copies, and seven had three copies. One infant died in the month following GT due to severe thrombotic microangiopathy, and another died due to respiratory distress. Among the 17 patients with 24 months of follow-up, 90% required spinal bracing (15/17), three patients required nocturnal noninvasive ventilation, and two needed gastrostomy. Concerning motor milestones at the 24-month follow-up, all patients held their head, 15/17 sat for 30 s unassisted, and 12/17 stood with aid. Motor scores (CHOPINTEND and HINE-2) and thoracic circumference significantly improved in all patients. Conclusions Our study shows favorable motor outcomes and preserved respiratory and feeding functions in treatment-naive SMA1 infants treated by GT as the first and only therapy before respiratory and bulbar dysfunctions occurred. Nevertheless, almost all patients developed spinal deformities.
Published: 2024
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2. Genetic testing, another important tool in presurgical evaluation of focal epilepsies in childhood

Author: Rocio Garcia‐Uzquiano, Giulia Barcia, Emma Losito, Nicole Chemaly, Anna Kaminska, Isabelle Desguerre, Thomas Blauwblomme, Nathalie Boddaert, and Rima Nabbout
Subjects: drug‐resistant epilepsy, epilepsy gene panel, epilepsy surgery, focal epilepsy, MRI negative, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract: Abstract Epilepsy surgery may be a curative therapy for patients with drug‐resistant epilepsies when focal lesions or foci are identified. Genetic testing is not yet routinely included in many presurgical evaluation programs although recent evidence support that finding a germline genetic mutation could help to better delineate the patient candidacy to surgery and provide valuable information on the expected surgery outcome. In this study, we report nine patients presenting drug‐resistant focal epilepsy enrolled in presurgical evaluation. We show how the identification of genetic pathogenic variant in epilepsy known genes led to the interruption of the presurgical work‐up and ruled out surgery in 7 of them. We observed that the co‐existence of some recurrent clinical characteristics as early seizures' onset, frequent precipitating factors including fever, and developmental delay or intellectual disability may be useful markers for germline genetic pathogenic variants. In this group, genetic assessment should be mandatory during presurgical work up, mainly in patients with negative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or doubtful structural lesions. The integration of next generation targeted sequencing into the presurgical evaluation can improve the selection of candidates for resective surgery and fosters a personalized medicine approach with a better outcome. Plaine Language Abstract Genetic testing is not yet systematically included in the pre‐surgical assessment of patients with drug‐resistant focal epilepsies. In this study, through the description of nine patients, we underline how the integration of genomics into the presurgical work up can help in evaluating the patient candidacy to surgery and provide valuable information on expected surgery outcome.
Published: 2024
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3. Lack of association between classical HLA genes and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection

Author: Astrid Marchal, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Iva Neveux, Evangelos Bellos, Ryan S. Thwaites, Kelly M. Schiabor Barrett, Yu Zhang, Ivana Nemes-Bokun, Mariya Kalinova, Andrew Catchpole, Stuart G. Tangye, András N. Spaan, Justin B. Lack, Jade Ghosn, Charles Burdet, Guy Gorochov, Florence Tubach, Pierre Hausfater, Clifton L. Dalgard, Shen-Ying Zhang, Qian Zhang, Christopher Chiu, Jacques Fellay, Joseph J. Grzymski, Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu, Laurent Abel, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Aurélie Cobat, Alexandre Bolze, Alessandro Aiuti, Saleh Al-Muhsen, Fahd Al-Mulla, Ali Amara, Mark S. Anderson, Evangelos Andreakos, Andrés A. Arias, Lisa M. Arkin, Hagit Baris Feldman, Paul Bastard, Alexandre Belot, Catherine M. Biggs, Dusan Bogunovic, Anastasiia Bondarenko, Alessandro Borghesi, Ahmed A. Bousfiha, Petter Brodin, Yenan Bryceson, Manish J. Butte, Giorgio Casari, John Christodoulou, Roger Colobran, Antonio Condino-Neto, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Megan A. Cooper, Murkesh Desai, Beth A. Drolet, Xavier Duval, Jamila El Baghdadi, Philippine Eloy, Sara Espinosa-Padilla, Carlos Flores, José Luis Franco, Antoine Froidure, Peter K. Gregersen, Bodo Grimbacher, Filomeen Haerynck, David Hagin, Rabih Halwani, Lennart Hammarström, James R. Heath, Elena W.Y. Hsieh, Eystein Husebye, Kohsuke Imai, Yuval Itan, Emmanuelle Jouanguy, Elżbieta Kaja, Timokratis Karamitros, Kai Kisand, Cheng-Lung Ku, Yu-Lung Lau, Yun Ling, Carrie L. Lucas, Tom Maniatis, Davood Mansouri, László Maródi, France Mentré, Isabelle Meyts, Joshua D. Milner, Kristina Mironska, Trine H. Mogensen, Tomohiro Morio, Lisa F.P. Ng, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Antonio Novelli, Giuseppe Novelli, Cliona O'Farrelly, Satoshi Okada, Keisuke Okamoto, Tayfun Ozcelik, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Jean W. Pape, Rebeca Perez de Diego, Jordi Perez-Tur, David S. Perlin, Graziano Pesole, Anna M. Planas, Carolina Prando, Aurora Pujol, Anne Puel, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Sathishkumar Ramaswamy, Laurent Renia, Igor Resnick, Carlos Rodríguez-Gallego, Anna Sediva, Mikko R.J. Seppänen, Mohammad Shahrooei, Anna Shcherbina, Ondrej Slaby, Andrew L. Snow, Pere Soler-Palacín, Vassili Soumelis, Ivan Tancevski, Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Şehime Gülsün Temel, Christian Thorball, Pierre Tiberghien, Sophie Trouillet-Assant, Stuart E. Turvey, K. M. Furkan Uddin, Mohammed J. Uddin, Diederik van de Beek, Donald C. Vinh, Horst von Bernuth, Joost Wauters, Mayana Zatz, Pawel Zawadzki, Serge Bureau, Yannick Vacher, Anne Gysembergh-Houal, Lauren Demerville, Abla Benleulmi-Chaachoua, Sebastien Abad, Radhiya Abassi, Abdelrafie Abdellaoui, Abdelkrim Abdelmalek, Hendy Abdoul, Helene Abergel, Fariza Abeud, Sophie Abgrall, Noemie Abisror, Marylise Adechian, Nordine Aderdour, Hakeem Farid Admane, Frederic Adnet, Sara Afritt, Helene Agostini, Claire Aguilar, Sophie Agut, Tommaso Francesco Aiello, Marc Ait Kaci, Hafid Ait Oufella, Gokula Ajeenthiravasan, Virginie Alauzy, Fanny Alby-Laurent, Lucie Allard, Marie-Alexandra Alyanakian, Blanca Amador Borrero, Sabrina Amam, Lucile Amrouche, Marc Andronikof, Dany Anglicheau, Nadia Anguel, Djillali Annane, Mohammed Aounzou, Caroline Aparicio, Gladys Aratus, Jean-Benoit Arlet, Jeremy Arzoine, Elisabeth Aslangul, Mona Assefi, Adeline Aubry, Laetitia Audiffred, Etienne Audureau, Christelle Nathalie Auger, Jean-Charles Auregan, Celine Awotar, Sonia Ayllon Milla, Delphine Azan, Laurene Azemar, Billal Azzouguen, Marwa Bachir Elrufaai, Aïda Badsi, Prissile Bakouboula, Coline Balcerowiak, Fanta Balde, Elodie Baldivia, Eliane-Flore Bangamingo, Amandine Baptiste, Fanny Baran-Marszak, Caroline Barau, Nathalie Barget, Flore Baronnet, Romain Barthelemy, Jean-Luc Baudel, Camille Baudry, Elodie Baudry, Laurent Beaugerie, Adel Belamri, Nicolas Belaube, Rhida Belilita, Pierre Bellassen, Rawan Belmokhtar, Isabel Beltran, Ruben Benainous, Mourad Benallaoua, Robert Benamouzig, Amélie Benbara, Jaouad Benhida, Anis Benkhelouf, Jihene Benlagha, Chahinez Benmostafa, Skander Benothmane, Miassa Bentifraouine, Laurence Berard, Quentin Bernier, Enora Berti, Astrid Bertier, Laure Berton, Simon Bessis, Alexandra Beurton, Celine Bianco, Clara Bianquis, Frank Bidar, Philippe Blanche, Clarisse Blayau, Alexandre Bleibtreu, Emmanuelle Blin, Coralie Bloch-Queyrat, Marie-Christophe Boissier, Diane Bollens, Marion Bolzoni, Rudy pierre Bompard, Nicolas Bonnet, Justine Bonnouvrier, Shirmonecrystal Botha, Wissam Boucenna, Fatiha Bouchama, Olivier Bouchaud, Hanane Bouchghoul, Taoueslylia Boudjebla, Noel Boudjema, Catherine Bouffard, Adrien Bougle, Meriem Bouguerra, Leila Bouras, Agnes Bourcier, Anne Bourgarit Durand, Anne Bourrier, Fabrice Bouscarat, Diane Bouvry, Nesrine Bouziri, Ons Bouzrara, Sarah Bribier, Delphine Brugier, Melanie Brunel, Eida Bui, Anne Buisson, Iryna Bukreyeva, Côme Bureau, Jacques Cadranel, Johann Cailhol, Ruxandra Calin, Clara Campos Vega, Pauline Canavaggio, Marta Cancella, Delphine Cantin, Albert Cao, Lionel Carbillon, Nicolas Carlier, Clementine Cassard, Guylaine Castor, Marion Cauchy, Olivier Cha, Benjamin Chaigne, Salima Challal, Karine Champion, Patrick Chariot, Julie Chas, Simon Chauveau, Anthony Chauvin, Clement Chauvin, Nathalie Chavarot, Kamélia Chebbout, Mustapha Cherai, Ilaria Cherubini, Amelie Chevalier, Thibault Chiarabini, Thierry Chinet, Richard Chocron, Pascaline Choinier, Juliette Chommeloux, Christophe Choquet, Laure Choupeaux, Benjamin Chousterman, Dragosmarius Ciocan, Ada Clarke, Gaëlle Clavere, Florian Clavier, Karine Clement, Sebastien Clerc, Yves Cohen, Fleur Cohen, Adrien Cohen, Audrey Coilly, Hester Colboc, Pauline Colin, Magalie Collet, Chloé Comarmond, Emeline Combacon, Alain Combes, Celine Comparon, Jean-Michel Constantin, Hugues Cordel, Anne-Gael Cordier, Adrien Costantini, Nathalie Costedoat Chalumeau, Camille Couffignal, Doriane Coupeau, Alain Creange, Yannie Cuvillier Lamarre, Charlène Da Silveira, Sandrine Dautheville Guibal El Kayani, Nathalie De Castro, Yann De Rycke, Lucie Del Pozo, Quentin Delannoy, Mathieu Delay, Robin Deleris, Juliette Delforge, Laëtitia Delphine, Noemie Demare, Sophie Demeret, Alexandre Demoule, Aurore Deniau, François Depret, Sophie Derolez, Ouda Derradji, Nawal Derridj, Vincent Descamps, Lydia Deschamps, Celine Desconclois, Cyrielle Desnos, Karine Desongins, Robin Dhote, Benjamin Diallo, Morgane Didier, Myriam Diemer, Stephane Diez, Juliette Djadi-Prat, Fatima-Zohra Djamouri Monnory, Siham Djebara, Naoual Djebra, Minette Djietcheu, Hadjer Djillali, Nouara Djouadi, Severine Donneger, Catarina Dos Santos, Nathalie Dournon, Martin Dres, Laura Droctove, Marie Drogrey, Margot Dropy, Elodie Drouet, Valérie Dubosq, Evelyne Dubreucq, Estelle Dubus, Boris Duchemann, Thibault Duchenoy, Emmanuel Dudoignon, Romain Dufau, Florence Dumas, Clara Duran, Emmanuelle Duron, Antoine Durrbach, Claudine Duvivier, Nathan Ebstein, Jihane El Khalifa, Alexandre Elabbadi, Caroline Elie, Gabriel Ernotte, Anne Esling, Martin Etienne, Xavier Eyer, Muriel Sarah Fartoukh, Takoua Fayali, Marion Fermaut, Arianna Fiorentino, Souha Fliss, Marie-Céline Fournier, Benjamin Fournier, Hélène Francois, Olivia Freynet, Yvann Frigout, Isaure Fromont, Axelle Fuentes, Thomas Furet, Joris Galand, Marc Garnier, Agnes Gaubert, Stéphane Gaudry, Samuel Gaugain, Damien Gauthier, Maxime Gautier, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Daniela Geromin, Mohamed Ghalayini, Bijan Ghaleh, Myriam Ghezal, Aude Gibelin, Linda Gimeno, Benoit Girard, Bénédicte Giroux Leprieur, Doryan Gomes, Elisabete Gomes-Pires, Anne Gouge, Amel Gouja, Helene Goulet, Sylvain Goupil, Jeanne Goupil De Bouille, Julien Gras, Segolene Greffe, Lamiae Grimaldi, Paul Guedeney, Bertrand Guidet, Matthias Guillo, Mariechristelle Gulczynski, Tassadit Hadjam, Didier Haguenauer, Soumeya Hammal, Nadjib Hammoudi, Olivier Hanon, Anarole Harrois, Coraline Hautem, Guillaume Hekimian, Nicholas Heming, Olivier Hermine, Sylvie Ho, Marie Houllier, Benjamin Huot, Tessa Huscenot, Wafa Ibn Saied, Ghilas Ikherbane, Meriem Imarazene, Patrick Ingiliz, Lina Iratni, Stephane Jaureguiberry, Jean-Francois Jean-Marc, Deleena Jeyarajasingham, Pauline Jouany, Veronique Jouis, Clement Jourdaine, Ouifiya Kafif, Rim Kallala, Sandrine Katsahian, Lilit Kelesyan, Vixra Keo, Flora Ketz, Warda Khamis, Enfel Khelili, Mehdi Khellaf, Christy Gaëlla Kotokpo Youkou, Ilias Kounis, Gaelle Kpalma, Jessica Krause, Vincent Labbe, Karine Lacombe, Jean-Marc Lacorte, Anne Gaelle Lafont, Emmanuel Lafont, Lynda Lagha, Lionel Lamhaut, Aymeric Lancelot, Cecilia Landman, Fanny Lanternier, Cecile Larcheveque, Caroline Lascoux Combe, Ludovic Lassel, Benjamin Laverdant, Christophe Lavergne, Jean-Rémi Lavillegrand, Pompilia Lazureanu, Loïc Le Guennec, Lamia Leberre, Claire Leblanc, Marion Leboyer, Francois Lecomte, Marine Lecorre, Romain Leenhardt, Marylou Lefebvre, Bénédicte Lefebvre, Paul Legendre, Anne Leger, Laurence Legros, Justyna Legrosse, Sébastien Lehuunghia, Julien Lemarec, Jeremie Leporrier-Ext, Manon Lesein, Hubert Lesur, Vincent Levy, Albert Levy, Edwige Lopes, Amanda Lopes, Vanessa Lopez, Julien Lopinto, Olivier Lortholary, Badr Louadah, Bénédicte Loze, Marie-Laure Lucas, Axelle Lucasamichi, Liem Binh Luong, Arouna Magazimama-Ext, David Maingret, Lakhdar Mameri, Philippe Manivet, Cylia Mansouri, Estelle Marcault, Jonathan Marey, Nathalie Marin, Clémence Marois, Olivier Martin, Lou Martineau, Cannelle Martinez-Lopez, Pierre Martyniuck, Pauline Mary De Farcy, Nessrine Marzouk, Rafik Masmoudi, Alexandre Mebazaa, Frédéric Mechai, Fabio Mecozzi, Chamseddine Mediouni, Bruno Megarbane, Mohamed Meghadecha, Élodie Mejean, Arsene Mekinian, Nour Mekki Abdelhadi, Rania Mekni, Thinhinan Sabrina Meliti, Breno Melo Lima, Paris Meng, Soraya Merbah, Fadhila Messani, Yasmine Messaoudi, Baboo-Irwinsingh Mewasing, Lydia Meziane, Carole Michelot-Burger, Françoise Mignot, Fadi Hillary Minka, Makoto Miyara, Pierre Moine, Jean-Michel Molina, Anaïs Montegnies-Boulet, Alexandra Monti, Claire Montlahuc, Anne-Lise Montout, Alexandre Moores, Caroline Morbieu, Helene Mortelette, Stéphane Mouly, Rosita Muzaffar, Cherifa Iness Nacerddine, Marine Nadal, Hajer Nadif, Kladoum Nassarmadji, Pierre Natella, Sandrine Ndingamondze, Stefan Neraal, Caroline Nguyen, Bao N'Guyen, Isabelle Nion Larmurier, Luc Nlomenyengue, Nicolas Noel, Hilario Nunes, Edris Omar, Zineb Ouazene, Elise Ouedraogo, Wassila Ouelaa, Anissa Oukhedouma, Yasmina Ould Amara, Herve Oya, Johanna Oziel, Thomas Padilla, Elena Paillaud, Solenne Paiva, Beatrice Parfait, Perrine Parize, Christophe Parizot, Antoine Parrot, Arthur Pavot, Laetitia Peaudecerf, Frédéric Pene, Marion Pepin, Julie Pernet, Claire Pernin, Mylène Petit, Olivier Peyrony, Marie-Pierre Pietri, Olivia Pietri, Marc Pineton De Chambrun, Michelle Pinson, Claire Pintado, Valentine Piquard, Christine Pires, Benjamin Planquette, Sandrine Poirier, Anne-Laure Pomel, Stéphanie Pons, Diane Ponscarme, Annegaelle Pourcelot, Valérie Pourcher, Anne Pouvaret, Florian Prever, Miresta Previlon, Margot Prevost, Marie-Julie Provoost, Cyril Quemeneur, Cédric Rafat, Agathe Rami, Brigitte Ranque, Maurice Raphael, Jean Herle Raphalen, Anna Rastoin, Mathieu Raux, Amani Rebai, Michael Reby, Alexis Regent, Asma Regrag, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Quentin Ressaire, Christian Richard, Mariecaroline Richard, Maxence Robert, Benjamin Rohaut, Camille Rolland-Debord, Jacques Ropers, Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso, Charlotte Rosso, Mélanie 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Gustave Toury, Mireille Toy-Miou, Olivia Tran Dinh Thanh Lien, Alexy Trandinh, Jean-Marc Treluyer, Baptiste Trinque, Jennifer Truchot, Sarah Tubiana, Simone Tunesi, Matthieu Turpin, Agathe Turpin, Tomas Urbina, Rafael Usubillaga Narvaez, Yurdagul Uzunhan, Prabakar Vaittinadaayar, Arnaud Valent, Maelle Valentian, Nadia Valin, Hélène Vallet, Marina Vaz, Miguel-Alejandro Vazquezibarra, Benoit Vedie, Laetitia Velly, Celine Verstuyft, Cedric Viallette, Eric Vicaut, Dorothee Vignes, Damien Vimpere, Myriam Virlouvet, Guillaume Voiriot, Lena Voisot, Emmanuel Weiss, Nicolas Weiss, Anaïs Winchenne, Youri Yordanov, Lara Zafrani, Mohamad Zaidan, Wissem Zaidi, Cathia Zak, Aida Zarhrate-Ghoul, Ouassila Zatout, Suzanne Zeino, Michel Zeitouni, Naïma Zemirli, Lorene Zerah, Ounsa Zia, Marianne Ziol, Oceane Zolario, Julien Zuber, Claire Andrejak, François Angoulvant, Delphine Bachelet, Marie Bartoli, Romain Basmaci, Sylvie Behillil, Marine Beluze, Dehbia Benkerrou, Krishna Bhavsar, Lila Bouadma, Sabelline Bouchez, Maude Bouscambert, Minerva Cervantes-Gonzalez, Anissa Chair, Catherine Chirouze, Alexandra Coelho, Sandrine Couffin-Cadiergues, Eric d’Ortenzio, Marie-Pierre Debray, Laurene Deconinck, Dominique Deplanque, Diane Descamps, Mathilde Desvallée, Alpha Diallo, Alphonsine Diouf, Céline Dorival, François Dubos, Brigitte Elharrar, Vincent Enouf, Hélène Esperou, Marina Esposito-Farese, Manuel Etienne, Eglantine Ferrand Devouge, Nathalie Gault, Alexandre Gaymard, Tristan Gigante, Morgane Gilg, Jérémie Guedj, Alexandre Hoctin, Isabelle Hoffmann, Ikram Houas, Jean-Sébastien Hulot, Salma Jaafoura, Florentia Kaguelidou, Sabrina Kali, Antoine Khalil, Coralie Khan, Cédric Laouénan, Samira Laribi, Minh Le, Quentin Le Hingrat, Soizic Le Mestre, Hervé Le Nagard, François-Xavier Lescure, Sophie Letrou, Yves Levy, Bruno Lina, Guillaume Lingas, Jean-Christophe Lucet, Denis Malvy, Marina Mambert, Amina Meziane, Hugo Mouquet, Jimmy Mullaert, Nadège Neant, Duc Nguyen, Marion Noret, Saad Nseir, Aurélie Papadopoulos, Christelle Paul, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Thomas Perpoint, Ventzislava Petrov-Sanchez, Gilles Peytavin, Huong Pham, Olivier Picone, Oriane Puéchal, Christian Rabaud, Manuel Rosa-Calatrava, Bénédicte Rossignol, Patrick Rossignol, Carine Roy, Marion Schneider, Richa Su, Coralie Tardivon, Marie-Capucine Tellier, François Téoulé, Olivier Terrier, Jean-François Timsit, Christelle Tual, Sylvie Van Der Werf, Noémie Vanel, Aurélie Veislinger, Benoit Visseaux, Aurélie Wiedemann, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Loubna Alavoine, Charlotte Charpentier, Aline Dechanet, Jean-Luc Ecobichon, Wahiba Frezouls, Nadhira Houhou, Jonathan Lehacaut, Pauline Manchon, Mariama Nouroudine, Caroline Quintin, Michael Thy, Sylvie van der Werf, Valérie Vignali, Abir Chahine, Nawal Waucquier, Maria-Claire Migaud, Félix Djossou, Mayka Mergeay-Fabre, Aude Lucarelli, Magalie Demar, Léa Bruneau, Patrick Gérardin, Adrien Maillot, Christine Payet, Bruno Laviolle, Fabrice Laine, Christophe Paris, Mireille 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Alshahrani, Laia Alsina, Zahir Amoura, Arnau Antolí, Romain Arrestier, Mélodie Aubart, Teresa Auguet, Iryna Avramenko, Gökhan Aytekin, Axelle Azot, Seiamak Bahram, Fanny Bajolle, Fausto Baldanti, Aurélie Baldolli, Maite Ballester, Benoit Barrou, Federica Barzaghi, Sabrina Basso, Gulsum Iclal Bayhan, Liliana Bezrodnik, Agurtzane Bilbao, Geraldine Blanchard-Rohner, Ignacio Blanco, Adeline Blandinières, Daniel Blázquez-Gamero, Marketa Bloomfield, Mireia Bolivar-Prados, Raphael Borie, Elisabeth Botdhlo-Nevers, Aurore Bousquet, David Boutolleau, Claire Bouvattier, Oksana Boyarchuk, Juliette Bravais, M. Luisa Briones, Marie-Eve Brunner, Raffaele Bruno, Maria Rita P. Bueno, Huda Bukhari, Jacinta Bustamante, Juan José Cáceres Agra, Ruggero Capra, Raphael Carapito, Maria Carrabba, Carlos Casasnovas, Marion Caseris, Irene Cassaniti, Martin Castelle, Francesco Castelli, Martín Castillo de Vera, Mateus V. Castro, Emilie Catherinot, Jale Bengi Celik, Alessandro Ceschi, Martin Chalumeau, Bruno Charbit, Cécile Boulanger, Père Clavé, Bonaventura Clotet, Anna Codina, Cloé Comarmond, Patrizia Comoli, Angelo G. Corsico, Taner Coşkuner, Aleksandar Cvetkovski, Cyril Cyrus, David Dalmau, François Danion, David Ross Darley, Vincent Das, Nicolas Dauby, Stéphane Dauger, Paul De Munte, Loic de Pontual, Amin Dehban, Geoffroy Delplancq, Isabelle Desguerre, Antonio Di Sabatino, Jean-Luc Diehl, Stephanie Dobbelaere, Elena Domínguez-Garrido, Clément Dubost, Olov Ekwall, Şefika Elmas Bozdemir, Marwa H. Elnagdy, Melike Emiroglu, Akifumi Endo, Emine Hafize Erdeniz, Selma Erol Aytekin, Maria Pilar Etxart Lasa, Romain Euvrard, Giovanna Fabio, Laurence Faivre, Antonin Falck, Muriel Fartoukh, Morgane Faure, Miguel Fernandez Arquero, Ricard Ferrer, Jose Ferreres, Bruno Francois, Victoria Fumadó, Kitty S.C. Fung, Francesca Fusco, Alenka Gagro, Blanca Garcia Solis, Pierre Garçon, Pascale Gaussem, Zeynep Gayretli, Juana Gil-Herrera, Laurent Gilardin, Audrey Giraud Gatineau, Mònica Girona-Alarcón, Karen Alejandra Cifuentes Godínez, Jean-Christophe Goffard, Nacho Gonzales, Luis I. Gonzalez-Granado, Rafaela González-Montelongo, Antoine Guerder, Belgin Gülhan, Victor Daniel Gumucio, Leif Gunnar Hanitsch, Jan Gunst, Marta Gut, Jérôme Hadjadj, Selda Hancerli, Tetyana Hariyan, Nevin Hatipoglu, Deniz Heppekcan, Elisa Hernandez-Brito, Po-ki Ho, María Soledad Holanda-Peña, Juan P. Horcajada, Sami Hraiech, Linda Humbert, Ivan F.N. Hung, Alejandro D. Iglesias, Antonio Íñigo-Campos, Matthieu Jamme, María Jesús Arranz, Marie-Thérèse Jimeno, Iolanda Jordan, Saliha Kanık-Yüksek, Yalcin Kara, Aydın Karahan, Adem Karbuz, Kadriye Kart Yasar, Ozgur Kasapcopur, Kenichi Kashimada, Sevgi Keles, Yasemin Kendir Demirkol, Yasutoshi Kido, Can Kizil, Ahmet Osman Kılıç, Adam Klocperk, Antonia Koutsoukou, Zbigniew J. Król, Hatem Ksouri, Paul Kuentz, Arthur M.C. Kwan, Yat Wah M. Kwan, Janette S.Y. Kwok, Jean-Christophe Lagier, David S.Y. Lam, Vicky Lampropoulou, Fleur Le Bourgeois, Yee-Sin Leo, Rafael Leon Lopez, Daniel Leung, Michael Levin, Michael Levy, Romain Lévy, Zhi Li, Daniele Lilleri, Edson Jose Adrian Bolanos Lima, Agnes Linglart, Eduardo López-Collazo, José M. Lorenzo-Salazar, Céline Louapre, Catherine Lubetzki, Kwok-Cheung Lung, Charles-Edouard Luyt, David C. Lye, Cinthia Magnone, Enrico Marchioni, Carola Marioli, Majid Marjani, Laura Marques, Jesus Marquez Pereira, Andrea Martín-Nalda, David Martínez Pueyo, Javier Martinez-Picado, Iciar Marzana, Carmen Mata-Martínez, Alexis Mathian, Larissa R.B. Matos, Gail V. Matthews, Julien Mayaux, Raquel McLaughlin-Garcia, Philippe Meersseman, Jean-Louis Mège, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Isabelle Melki, Federica Meloni, Jean-François Meritet, Paolo Merlani, Özge Metin Akcan, Mehdi Mezidi, Isabelle Migeotte, Maude Millereux, Matthieu Million, Tristan Mirault, Clotilde Mircher, Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Yoko Mizoguchi, Bhavi P. Modi, Francesco Mojoli, Elsa Moncomble, Abián Montesdeoca Melián, Antonio Morales Martinez, Francisco Morandeira, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, Clémence Mordacq, Guillaume Morelle, Stéphane J. Mouly, Adrián Muñoz-Barrera, Cyril Nafati, Shintaro Nagashima, Yu Nakagama, Bénédicte Neven, João Farela Neves, Yuk-Yung Ng, Hubert Nielly, Yeray Novoa Medina, Esmeralda Nuñez Cuadros, Semsi Nur Karabela, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Mehdi Oualha, Amani Ouedrani, Tayfun Özçelik, Aslinur Ozkaya-Parlakay, Michele Pagani, Maria Papadaki, Philippe Parola, Tiffany Pascreau, Stéphane Paul, Estela Paz-Artal, Sigifredo Pedraza, Nancy Carolina González Pellecer, Silvia Pellegrini, Rebeca Pérez de Diego, Xosé Luis Pérez-Fernández, Aurélien Philippe, Quentin Philippot, Adrien Picod, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Antonio Piralla, Laura Planas-Serra, Dominique Ploin, Julien Poissy, Géraldine Poncelet, Garyphallia Poulakou, Marie S. Pouletty, Persia Pourshahnazari, Jia Li Qiu-Chen, Paul Quentric, Thomas Rambaud, Didier Raoult, Violette Raoult, Anne-Sophie Rebillat, Claire Redin, Léa Resmini, Pilar Ricart, Jean-Christophe Richard, Raúl Rigo-Bonnin, Nadia Rivet, Jacques G. Rivière, Gemma Rocamora-Blanch, Mathieu P. Rodero, Carlos Rodrigo, Luis Antonio Rodriguez, Carlos Rodriguez-Gallego, Agustí Rodriguez-Palmero, Carolina Soledad Romero, Anya Rothenbuhler, Damien Roux, Nikoletta Rovina, Flore Rozenberg, Yvon Ruch, Montse Ruiz, Maria Yolanda Ruiz del Prado, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Rodriguez, Joan Sabater-Riera, Kai Saks, Maria Salagianni, Oliver Sanchez, Adrián Sánchez-Montalvá, Silvia Sánchez-Ramón, Laire Schidlowski, Agatha Schluter, Julien Schmidt, Matthieu Schmidt, Catharina Schuetz, Cyril E. Schweitzer, Francesco Scolari, Luis Seijo, Analia Gisela Seminario, Piseth Seng, Sevtap Senoglu, Mikko Seppänen, Alex Serra Llovich, Virginie Siguret, Eleni Siouti, David M. Smadja, Nikaia Smith, Ali Sobh, Xavier Solanich, Jordi Solé-Violán, Catherine Soler, Betül Sözeri, Giulia Maria Stella, Yuriy Stepanovskiy, Annabelle Stoclin, Fabio Taccone, Jean-Luc Taupin, Simon J. Tavernier, Loreto Vidaur Tello, Benjamin Terrier, Guillaume Thiery, Karolina Thorn, Caroline Thumerelle, Imran Tipu, Martin Tolstrup, Gabriele Tomasoni, Julie Toubiana, Josep Trenado Alvarez, Vasiliki Triantafyllia, Jesús Troya, Owen T.Y. Tsang, Liina Tserel, Eugene Y.K. Tso, Alessandra Tucci, Şadiye Kübra Tüter Öz, Matilde Valeria Ursini, Takanori Utsumi, Pierre Vabres, Juan Valencia-Ramos, Ana Maria Van Den Rym, Isabelle Vandernoot, Valentina Velez-Santamaria, Silvia Patricia Zuniga Veliz, Mateus C. Vidigal, Sébastien Viel, Cédric Villain, Marie E. Vilaire-Meunier, Judit Villar-García, Audrey Vincent, Dimitri Van der Linden, Alla Volokha, Fanny Vuotto, Els Wauters, Alan K.L. Wu, Tak-Chiu Wu, Aysun Yahşi, Osman Yesilbas, Mehmet Yildiz, Barnaby E. Young, Ufuk Yükselmiş, Marco Zecca, Valentina Zuccaro, Jens Van Praet, Bart N. Lambrecht, Eva Van Braeckel, Cédric Bosteels, Levi Hoste, Eric Hoste, Fré Bauters, Jozefien De Clercq, Catherine Heijmans, Hans Slabbynck, Leslie Naesens, Benoit Florkin, Mary-Anne Young, Amanda Willis, Paloma Lapuente-Suanzes, Ana de Andrés-Martín, Matilda Berkell, Valerio Carelli, Alessia Fiorentino, Surbhi Malhotra, Alessandro Mattiaccio, Tommaso Pippucci, Marco Seri, Evelina Tacconelli, Michiel van Agtmael, Anne Geke Algera, Brent Appelman, Frank van Baarle, Diane Bax, Martijn Beudel, Harm Jan Bogaard, Marije Bomers, Peter Bonta, Lieuwe Bos, Michela Botta, Justin de Brabander, Godelieve de Bree, Sanne de Bruin, David T.P. Buis, Marianna Bugiani, Esther Bulle, Osoul Chouchane, Alex Cloherty, Mirjam Dijkstra, Dave A. Dongelmans, Romein W.G. Dujardin, Paul Elbers, Lucas Fleuren, Suzanne Geerlings, Theo Geijtenbeek, Armand Girbes, Bram Goorhuis, Martin P. Grobusch, Florianne Hafkamp, Laura Hagens, Jorg Hamann, Vanessa Harris, Robert Hemke, Sabine M. Hermans, Leo Heunks, Markus Hollmann, Janneke Horn, Joppe W. Hovius, Menno D. de Jong, Rutger Koning, Endry H.T. Lim, Niels van Mourik, Jeaninne Nellen, Esther J. Nossent, Frederique Paulus, Edgar Peters, Dan A.I. Pina-Fuentes, Tom van der Poll, Bennedikt Preckel, Jan M. Prins, Jorinde Raasveld, Tom Reijnders, Maurits C.F. J. de Rotte, Michiel Schinkel, Marcus J. Schultz, Femke A.P. Schrauwen, Alex Schuurmans, Jaap Schuurmans, Kim Sigaloff, Marleen A. Slim, Patrick Smeele, Marry Smit, Cornelis S. Stijnis, Willemke Stilma, Charlotte Teunissen, Patrick Thoral, Anissa M. Tsonas, Pieter R. Tuinman, Marc van der Valk, Denise P. Veelo, Carolien Volleman, Heder de Vries, Lonneke A. Vught, Michèle van Vugt, Dorien Wouters, A.H. Zwinderman, Matthijs C. Brouwer, W. Joost Wiersinga, Alexander P.J. Vlaar, Miranda F. Tompkins, Camille Alba, Daniel N. Hupalo, John Rosenberger, Gauthaman Sukumar, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Xijun Zhang, Justin Lack, Andrew J. Oler, Kerry Dobbs, Ottavia M. Delmonte, Jeffrey J. Danielson, Andrea Biondi, Laura Rachele Bettini, Mariella D’Angiò, Ilaria Beretta, Luisa Imberti, Alessandra Sottini, Virginia Quaresima, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Camillo Rossi, Riccardo Castagnoli, Daniela Montagna, Amelia Licari, and Gian Luigi Marseglia
Subjects: HLA, association, asymptomatic infection, COVID-19, population stratification, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Summary: Human genetic studies of critical COVID-19 pneumonia have revealed the essential role of type I interferon-dependent innate immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Conversely, an association between the HLA-B∗15:01 allele and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated individuals was recently reported, suggesting a contribution of pre-existing T cell-dependent adaptive immunity. We report a lack of association of classical HLA alleles, including HLA-B∗15:01, with pre-omicron asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated participants in a prospective population-based study in the United States (191 asymptomatic vs. 945 symptomatic COVID-19 cases). Moreover, we found no such association in the international COVID Human Genetic Effort cohort (206 asymptomatic vs. 574 mild or moderate COVID-19 cases and 1,625 severe or critical COVID-19 cases). Finally, in the Human Challenge Characterisation study, the three HLA-B∗15:01 individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 developed symptoms. As with other acute primary infections studied, no classical HLA alleles favoring an asymptomatic course of SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified.
Published: 2024
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4. Combination disease‐modifying treatment in spinal muscular atrophy: A proposed classification

Author: Crystal M. Proud, Eugenio Mercuri, Richard S. Finkel, Janbernd Kirschner, Darryl C. De Vivo, Francesco Muntoni, Kayoko Saito, Eduardo F. Tizzano, Isabelle Desguerre, Susana Quijano‐Roy, Kamal Benguerba, Dheeraj Raju, Eric Faulkner, and Laurent Servais
Subjects: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract: Abstract We sought to devise a rational, systematic approach for defining/grouping survival motor neuron‐targeted disease‐modifying treatment (DMT) scenarios. The proposed classification is primarily based on a two‐part differentiation: initial DMT, and persistence/discontinuation of subsequent DMT(s). Treatment categories were identified: monotherapy add‐on, transient add‐on, combination with onasemnogene abeparvovec, bridging to onasemnogene abeparvovec, and switching to onasemnogene abeparvovec. We validated this approach by applying the classification to the 443 patients currently in the RESTORE registry and explored the demographics of these different groups of patients. This work forms the basis to explore the safety and efficacy profile of the different combinations of DMT in SMA.
Published: 2023
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5. Myopathologic trajectory in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) reveals lack of regeneration due to senescence in satellite cells

Author: Nastasia Cardone, Valentina Taglietti, Serena Baratto, Kaouthar Kefi, Baptiste Periou, Ciryl Gitiaux, Christine Barnerias, Peggy Lafuste, France Leturcq Pharm, Juliette Nectoux Pharm, Chiara Panicucci, Isabelle Desguerre, Claudio Bruno, François-Jerome Authier, Chiara Fiorillo, Frederic Relaix, and Edoardo Malfatti
Subjects: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Fibrosis, FAPs, Muscle regeneration, Cellular senescence, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract: Abstract Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating X-linked muscular disease, caused by mutations in the DMD gene encoding Dystrophin and affecting 1:5000 boys worldwide. Lack of Dystrophin leads to progressive muscle wasting and degeneration resulting in cardiorespiratory failure. Despite the absence of a definitive cure, innovative therapeutic avenues are emerging. Myopathologic studies are important to further understand the biological mechanisms of the disease and to identify histopathologic benchmarks for clinical evaluations. We conducted a myopathologic analysis on twenty-four muscle biopsies from DMD patients, with particular emphasis on regeneration, fibro-adipogenic progenitors and muscle stem cells behavior. We describe an increase in content of fibro-adipogenic progenitors, central orchestrators of fibrotic progression and lipid deposition, concurrently with a decline in muscle regenerative capacity. This regenerative impairment strongly correlates with compromised activation and expansion of muscle stem cells. Furthermore, our study uncovers an early acquisition of a senescence phenotype by DMD-afflicted muscle stem cells. Here we describe the myopathologic trajectory intrinsic to DMD and establish muscle stem cell senescence as a pivotal readout for future therapeutic interventions.
Published: 2023
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6. Recurrent 'outsider' intronic variation in the SLC5A6 gene causes severe mixed axonal and demyelinating neuropathy, cyclic vomiting and optic atrophy in 3 families from Maghreb

Author: Lamisse Mansour-Hendili, Cyril Gitiaux, Madeleine Harion, Céline Latouche, Bénédicte Heron, Tanya Stojkovic, Mélanie Rama, Thomas Smol, Anne Sophie Jourdain, Karine Mention, Yann Nadjar, Manuel Schiff, Julie Lemale, Jamal Ghoumid, Frédéric Gottrand, Cécile Talbotec, Agnès Rötig, Benoît Funalot, and Isabelle Desguerre
Subjects: multivitamin deficiency, intronic variation, splicing, recurrent, mixed neuropathy, optic atrophy, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Sodium dependent multivitamin transporter (SMVT) deficiency is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by multisystemic clinical manifestations due to combined biotin, panthotenic acid and lipoic acid deficiency. About 10 families have been described so far. Accurate diagnosis is crucial because of the possibility of a supplementation treatment with proven efficacy. Here we describe 4 new patients (3 additional families) originating from the same world region (Algeria, Maghreb). All patients, born form consanguineous parents, were homozygous carriers of the same intronic variation, outside of canonical sites, in the SLC5A6 gene encoding SMVT. RNA study in one family allowed confirming the pathogenic effect of the variation and re-classifying this variant of uncertain significance as pathogenic, opening the possibility of genetic counseling and treatment. The identification of the same variation in three distinct and apparently unrelated families is suggestive of a founder effect. The phenotype of all patients was very similar, with systematic optic atrophy (initially considered as a very rare sign), severe cyclic vomiting, and rapidly progressive mixed axonal and demyelinating sensory motor neuropathy.
Published: 2024
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7. A non-coding variant in the Kozak sequence of RARS2 strongly decreases protein levels and causes pontocerebellar hypoplasia

Author: Romain Nicolle, Nami Altin, Karine Siquier-Pernet, Sherlina Salignac, Pierre Blanc, Arnold Munnich, Christine Bole-Feysot, Valérie Malan, Barthélémy Caron, Patrick Nitschké, Isabelle Desguerre, Nathalie Boddaert, Marlène Rio, Antonio Rausell, and Vincent Cantagrel
Subjects: Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia, RARS2, Kozak, Non-coding variant, Bioinformatic predictions, Internal medicine, RC31-1245, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Bi-allelic variants in the mitochondrial arginyl-transfer RNA synthetase (RARS2) gene have been involved in early-onset encephalopathies classified as pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH) type 6 and in epileptic encephalopathy. A variant (NM_020320.3:c.-2A > G) in the promoter and 5’UTR of the RARS2 gene has been previously identified in a family with PCH. Only a mild impact of this variant on the mRNA level has been detected. As RARS2 is non-dosage-sensitive, this observation is not conclusive in regard of the pathogenicity of the variant. We report and describe here a new patient with the same variant in the RARS2 gene, at the homozygous state. This patient presents with a clinical phenotype consistent with PCH6 although in the absence of lactic acidosis. In agreement with the previous study, we measured RARS2 mRNA levels in patient’s fibroblasts and detected a partially preserved gene expression compared to control. Importantly, this variant is located in the Kozak sequence that controls translation initiation. Therefore, we investigated the impact on protein translation using a bioinformatic approach and western blotting. We show here that this variant, additionally to its effect on the transcription, also disrupts the consensus Kozak sequence, and has a major impact on RARS2 protein translation. Through the identification of this additional case and the characterization of the molecular consequences, we clarified the involvement of this Kozak variant in PCH and on protein synthesis. This work also points to the current limitation in the pathogenicity prediction of variants located in the translation initiation region.
Published: 2023
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8. Diagnostic work-up and phenotypic characteristics of a family with variable severity of distal arthrogryposis type 2B (Sheldon-Hall syndrome) and TNNT3 pathogenic variant

Author: Ivana Dabaj, Robert Y. Carlier, Klaus Dieterich, Isabelle Desguerre, Julien Faure, Norma B. Romero, Wenting Trang, Susana Quijano-Roy, and Dominique P. Germain
Subjects: Sheldon-hall syndrome, distal arthrogryposis type 2B, DA2B, TNNT3, neurogenic pattern, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Background: Sheldon–Hall syndrome (SHS) or distal arthrogryposis 2B (DA2B) is a rare clinically and genetically heterogeneous multiple congenital contracture syndrome characterized by contractures of the distal joints of the limbs and mild facial involvement, due to pathogenic variants in genes encoding the fast-twitch skeletal muscle contractile myofiber complex (TNNT3, TNNI2, TMP2, and MYH3 genes).Patients and methods: A 16-year-old boy with a history of congenital distal arthrogryposis developed severe kyphoscoliosis and respiratory insufficiency. His mother and younger sister had phenotypes compatible with SHS but to a much lesser extent. Diagnostic work-up included physical examination and whole-body muscular MRI (WBMRI) in all three patients and electroneuromyography (ENMG) and paravertebral muscle biopsy in the proband. DNA sequencing was used to confirm the diagnosis.Results: Physical examination suggested the diagnosis of SHS. No muscle signal abnormalities were found in WBMRI. Large motor unit potentials and reduced recruitment suggestive of neurogenic changes were observed on needle EMG in distal and paravertebral muscles in the proband. DNA sequencing revealed a pathogenic variant in TNNT3 (c.187C>T), which segregated as a dominant trait with the phenotype.Discussion: This is the first report on neurogenic features in a patient with DA2B and a pathogenic variant in TNNT3 encoding the fast-twitch skeletal muscle contractile myofiber complex. A superimposed length-dependent motor nerve involvement was unexpected. Whether developmental disarrangements in number, distribution, or innervation of the motor unit in fetal life might lead to pseudo-neurogenic EMG features warrants further studies, as well as the role of genetic modifiers in SHS variability.
Published: 2023
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9. A multicenter cross-sectional French study of the impact of COVID-19 on neuromuscular diseases

Author: Lucie Isoline Pisella, Sara Fernandes, Guilhem Solé, Tanya Stojkovic, Céline Tard, Jean-Baptiste Chanson, Françoise Bouhour, Emmanuelle Salort-Campana, Guillemette Beaudonnet, Louise Debergé, Fanny Duval, Aude-Marie Grapperon, Marion Masingue, Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza, Yann Péréon, Frédérique Audic, Anthony Behin, Diane Friedman, Armelle Magot, Jean-Baptiste Noury, Sarah Souvannanorath, Karim Wahbi, Jean-Christophe Antoine, Kévin Bigaut, Jean-Philippe Camdessanché, Pascal Cintas, Rabab Debs, Caroline Espil-Taris, Laurent Kremer, Thierry Kuntzer, Pascal Laforêt, Vincent Laugel, Martial Mallaret, Maud Michaud, Sylvain Nollet, Juliette Svahn, Savine Vicart, Rocio Nur Villar-Quiles, Isabelle Desguerre, David Adams, Sandrine Segovia-Kueny, Géraldine Merret, Elhadi Hammouda, Annamaria Molon, and Shahram Attarian
Subjects: Neuromuscular diseases, COVID-19, Risk factor, Prognosis, Medicine
Abstract: Abstract Background Due to their health condition, patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are at greater risk of developing serious complications with COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 among NMD patients and the risk factors for its impact and severity during the first wave of the pandemic. Clinical data were collected from NMD-COVID-19 patients, between March 25, 2020 and May 11, 2020 in an anonymous survey carried out by expert physicians from the French Health Care Network Filnemus. Results Physicians reported 84 patients, including: 34 with myasthenia gravis, 27 with myopathy and 23 with neuropathy. COVID-19 had no effect on NMD for 48 (58%) patients and 48 (58%) patients developed low COVID-19 severity. COVID-19 caused the death of 9 (11%) NMD patients. Diabetic patients were at greater risk of dying. Patients with diabetes, hypertension or severe forms of NMD had a higher risk of developing a moderate or severe form of COVID-19. In our cohort, corticosteroids and other immunosuppressants were not significantly associated with higher COVID-19 severity for acquired NMD. Conclusion During this period, a small percentage of French NMD patients was affected by COVID-19 compared to the general French population and COVID-19 had a limited short-term effect on them. Diabetes, hypertension and a severe degree of NMD were identified as risk factors of unfavorable outcome following COVID-19. Conversely, in our cohort of patients with acquired NMD, corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants did not appear to be risk factors for more severe COVID-19.
Published: 2021
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10. Parents' dilemma: A therapeutic decision for children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1

Author: Sophie Boursange, Marco Araneda, Caroline Stalens, Isabelle Desguerre, Christine Barnerias, Marie-Christine Nougues, Arnaud Isapof, Susana Quijano-Roy, Nadia Blu Genestine, Laetitia Ouillade, Maripaz Martinez Jalilie, Claudia Castiglioni, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Marcela Gargiulo, and The SMAPAR Study Group
Subjects: dilemmatic decisions, palliative care, parents, caregivers, spinal amyotrophy type 1, SMAPAR Study, Pediatrics, RJ1-570
Abstract: BackgroundSMA type 1 is a severe neurodegenerative disorder that, in the absence of curative treatment, leads to death before 1 year of age without ventilatory support. Three innovative therapies are available to increase life expectancy.Purpose(i) To increase knowledge about parents' experiences with their decision to have opted for an innovative therapy; (ii) to assess the middle-term psychological consequences in the parents' lives.MethodsWe used an in-depth interview; a self-administrated questionnaire and self-report scales (BDI-II, STAI-Y, PSI-SF, SOC-13, PBA, DAS 16 and FICD). We compared parents hesitant before the decision to parents who were not-hesitant and the group of parents whose child was treated with gene therapy (GT) to parents whose child received another innovative therapy.Main resultsWe included n = 18 parents of 13 children. Parent's mean age was 34.7 (±5.2), child's average age was 44.3 months (±38.0). Retrospectively, most parents felt involved by doctors in decision-making on treatment, they felt their point of view was considered and were satisfied with the effects of the treatment. The group of parents “non-hesitant” was more depressed (p
Published: 2022
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11. The Use and Outcomes of Motor Rehabilitation Services Among People With Cerebral Palsy Change Across the Lifespan

Author: Gwenaël Cornec, Sylvain Brochard, Gaelle Drewnowski, Isabelle Desguerre, Philippe Toullet, Audrey Fontaine, Yann Le Lay, Julia Boivin, Eric Bérard, Maria Bodoria, Vincent Gautheron, and Javier De la Cruz
Subjects: disability, cerebral palsy, rehabilitation, healthcare service, transition to adult care, adult neurology, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract: Background and AimsThe provision of coordinated and multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs that adapt to the individual with cerebral palsy (CP) evolving rehabilitation needs throughout the different phases of life is highly challenging for healthcare systems. The aim of this study was to report the changes in motor rehabilitation (MR) environmental factors, service use and patient outcomes between children and adults with cerebral palsy and to identify if changes took place earlier or later than the standard division between pediatric and adult healthcare systems at 18 years.MethodsWe used data from the French ESPaCe survey to select a set of indicators for MR environmental factors, service use and patient outcomes, highlighted by patients and families in previous studies. We then compared the distribution of the indicator data between children and adults, as well as between four transition age groups: children under 12, adolescents up to 17 years, young adults, and adults over 25 years of age. We estimated odds ratios adjusted for motor involvement, associated impairments and informant type.ResultsA total of 997 respondents over 2 years of age were included in this study (484 children and 513 adults). Finding an available physiotherapist was very difficult for almost half of the children, and a greater proportion of adolescents and adults. Physiotherapy was provided in a private outpatient practice for twice as many adults over 25 years as children and adolescents. The weekly amount of physical therapy decreased as outpatient practice increased. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation decreased sharply from adolescence and was halved at adulthood. Satisfaction with the MR program decreased from childhood into adolescence and adulthood. Perceived impact of physiotherapy on people with CP and their main carers were less positive in adolescents.ConclusionsHealthcare policies should focus on accessibility issues at all ages, consider adolescents as a specific population, consider a wide transition phase (12–25 yo) and maintain a multidisciplinary approach at adulthood. There is a strong need for national rehabilitation strategies for individuals with CP.
Published: 2022
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12. Limitations of the apnea-hypopnea index in children and young adults with neuromuscular disorders

Author: Lucia Ronco, Sonia Khirani, Meryl Vedrenne-Cloquet, Remi Barrois, Christine Barnerias, Isabelle Desguerre, Elisabetta Bignamini, and Brigitte Fauroux
Subjects: Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology (clinical), Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2023

13. Skeletal Ryanodine Receptors Are Involved in Impaired Myogenic Differentiation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

Author: Pierre Meyer, Cécile Notarnicola, Albano C. Meli, Stefan Matecki, Gérald Hugon, Jérémy Salvador, Mirna Khalil, Léonard Féasson, Claude Cances, Jérôme Cottalorda, Isabelle Desguerre, Jean-Marie Cuisset, Pascal Sabouraud, Alain Lacampagne, Hugues Chevassus, François Rivier, and Gilles Carnac
Subjects: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, ryanodine receptor, myogenesis, endomysial fibrosis, human, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Chemistry, QD1-999
Abstract: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by progressive muscle wasting following repeated muscle damage and inadequate regeneration. Impaired myogenesis and differentiation play a major role in DMD as well as intracellular calcium (Ca2+) mishandling. Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum is mostly mediated by the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RYR1) that is required for skeletal muscle differentiation in animals. The study objective was to determine whether altered RYR1-mediated Ca2+ release contributes to myogenic differentiation impairment in DMD patients. The comparison of primary cultured myoblasts from six boys with DMD and five healthy controls highlighted delayed myoblast differentiation in DMD. Silencing RYR1 expression using specific si-RNA in a healthy control induced a similar delayed differentiation. In DMD myotubes, resting intracellular Ca2+ concentration was increased, but RYR1-mediated Ca2+ release was not changed compared with control myotubes. Incubation with the RYR-calstabin interaction stabilizer S107 decreased resting Ca2+ concentration in DMD myotubes to control values and improved calstabin1 binding to the RYR1 complex. S107 also improved myogenic differentiation in DMD. Furthermore, intracellular Ca2+ concentration was correlated with endomysial fibrosis, which is the only myopathologic parameter associated with poor motor outcome in patients with DMD. This suggested a potential relationship between RYR1 dysfunction and motor impairment. Our study highlights RYR1-mediated Ca2+ leakage in human DMD myotubes and its key role in myogenic differentiation impairment. RYR1 stabilization may be an interesting adjunctive therapeutic strategy in DMD.
Published: 2021
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14. 264th ENMC International Workshop: Multi-system involvement in spinal muscular atrophy Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, November 19th – 21st 2021

Author: Nora Tula Detering, Alberto Zambon, Niko Hensel, Rashmi Kothary, Kathryn Swoboda, Thomas H. Gillingwater, Giovanni Baranello, Simon Parson, Mariascristina Scoto, Melissa Bowerman, John Vissing, Brunhilde Wirth, Peter Claus, Janbernd Kirschner, Enrico Bertini, Stefania Corti, Lorenzo Maggi, Ludo van der Pol, Ewout Groen, Charlotte Sumner, Eduardo Tizzano, Susana Quijano Roy, Isabelle Desguerre, Alexander Van Nuijs, Mencia De Lemus, Rivka Smit, Mary Schroth, Ben Tichler, Ksenija Gorni, and Deepa Chand
Subjects: RC925, Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology (clinical), R1, Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2022

15. Fatal thrombotic microangiopathy case following adeno-associated viral SMN gene therapy

Author: Julia Guillou, Alice de Pellegars, Florence Porcheret, Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi, Emma Allain-Launay, Camille Debord, Manon Denis, Yann Péréon, Christine Barnérias, Isabelle Desguerre, Gwenaëlle Roussey, and Sandra Mercier
Subjects: Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, Fatal Outcome, Thrombotic Microangiopathies, Humans, Infant, Genetic Therapy, Immunotherapy, Hematology, Dependovirus
Abstract: Adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies are highly promising, such as the onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA). We report the first case of fatal systemic thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) following onasemnogene abeparvovec in a 6-month-old child with SMA type 1, carrying a potential genetic predisposition in the complement factor I gene. Other cases of TMA have recently been reported after onasemnogene abeparvovec and after AAV9 minidystrophin therapy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The risk-benefit ratio of this therapy must therefore be assessed. Early recognition of TMA and targeted immunotherapy are fundamental to ensure the safety of patients treated with AAV gene therapies.
Published: 2022

16. JAK inhibition in Aicardi-Goutières syndrome: a monocentric multidisciplinary real-world approach study

Author: Marie-Louise Frémond, Marie Hully, Benjamin Fournier, Rémi Barrois, Romain Lévy, Mélodie Aubart, Martin Castelle, Delphine Chabalier, Clarisse Gins, Eugénie Sarda, Buthaina Al Adba, Sophie Couderc, Céline D’ Almeida, Claire-Marine Berat, Chloé Durrleman, Caroline Espil, Laetitia Lambert, Cécile Méni, Maximilien Périvier, Pascal Pillet, Laura Polivka, Manuel Schiff, Calina Todosi, Florence Uettwiller, Alice Lepelley, Gillian I. Rice, Luis Seabra, Sylvia Sanquer, Anne Hulin, Claire Pressiat, Lauriane Goldwirt, Vincent Bondet, Darragh Duffy, Despina Moshous, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Christine Bodemer, Florence Robin-Renaldo, Nathalie Boddaert, Stéphane Blanche, Isabelle Desguerre, Yanick J. Crow, Bénédicte Neven, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Neurogénétique et neuroinflammation = Neurogenetics and neuroinflammation (Equipe Inserm U1163), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Sidra Medicine [Doha, Qatar], Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye - CHIPS [Poissy], Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Castres-Mazamet (CHIC-CM), CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), University of Manchester [Manchester], Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Hopital Saint-Louis [AP-HP] (AP-HP), Immunologie Translationnelle - Translational Immunology lab, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), University of Edinburgh, Immunogenetics of pediatric autoimmune diseases (Equipe Inserm U1163), M.-L. F. received a grant from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (reference: 000427993). Y. J. C. acknowledges the European Research Council (GA309449 and 786142-E-T1IFNs) and a state subsidy managed by the National Research Agency (France) under the 'Investments for the Future' program bearing the reference ANR-10-IAHU-01. Y. J. C. is supported by a UK Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit core grant (MRC, U127580972). Y. J. C. and D. D. acknowledge the ANR (grant CE17001002). D. D. thanks ImmunoQure AG for the provision of antibodies for the Simoa assay. The project was supported by MSDAVENIR (Devo-Decode Project)., ANR-10-IAHU-0001,Imagine,Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Imagine(2010), and European Project: 786142,ERC-2017-ADG,E-T1IFNs(2018)
Subjects: JAK inhibitors, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS), Immunology, Immunology and Allergy, interferon
Abstract: The paradigm type I interferonopathy Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is most typically characterized by severe neurological involvement. AGS is considered an immune-mediated disease, poorly responsive to conventional immunosuppression. Premised on a chronic enhancement of type I interferon signaling, JAK1/2 inhibition has been trialed in AGS, with clear improvements in cutaneous and systemic disease manifestations. Contrastingly, treatment efficacy at the level of the neurological system has been less conclusive. Here, we report our real-word approach study of JAK1/2 inhibition in 11 patients with AGS, providing extensive assessments of clinical and radiological status; interferon signaling, including in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); and drug concentrations in blood and CSF. Over a median follow-up of 17 months, we observed a clear benefit of JAK1/2 inhibition on certain systemic features of AGS, and reproduced results reported using the AGS neurologic severity scale. In contrast, there was no change in other scales assessing neurological status; using the caregiver scale, only patient comfort, but no other domain of everyday-life care, was improved. Serious bacterial infections occurred in 4 out of the 11 patients. Overall, our data lead us to conclude that other approaches to treatment are urgently required for the neurologic features of AGS. We suggest that earlier diagnosis and adequate central nervous system penetration likely remain the major factors determining the efficacy of therapy in preventing irreversible brain damage, implying the importance of early and rapid genetic testing and the consideration of intrathecal drug delivery.
Published: 2023

17. Clinical and radiological description of 120 pediatric stroke‐like episodes

Author: Chloe Durrleman, David Grevent, Melodie Aubart, Manoelle Kossorotoff, Charles‐Joris Roux, Anna Kaminska, Marlene Rio, Giulia Barcia, Nathalie Boddaert, Arnold Munnich, Rima Nabbout, and Isabelle Desguerre
Subjects: Neurology, Neurology (clinical)
Published: 2023

18. Epigenetic control of myogenic identity of human muscle stem cells in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Author: Jimmy Massenet, Michèle Weiss-Gayet, Hina Bandukwala, Mélanie Magnan, Arnaud Hubas, Patrick Nusbaum, Isabelle Desguerre, Cyril Gitiaux, F Jeffrey Dilworth, and Bénédicte Chazaud
Abstract: In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the absence of the subsarcolemmal dystrophin protein leads to repeated myofiber damages inducing cycles of muscle regeneration that is driven by muscle stem cells (MuSCs). With time, MuSC regenerative capacities are overwhelmed, leading to fibrosis and muscle atrophy. Whether MuSCs from DMD muscle have intrinsic defects that limit regenerative potential or are disrupted by their degenerative/regenerative environment is unclear. We investigated cell behavior and gene expression in human using MuSCs derived from DMD or healthy muscles. We found that proliferation, differentiation and fusion were not altered in DMD-MuSCs, but with time, they lost their myogenic identity twice as fast as healthy MuSCs. The rapid drift towards a fibroblast-like cell identity was observed at the clonal level, and resulted from the altered expression of epigenetic enzymes required to maintain the myogenic cell fate. Indeed, the re-expression ofCBX3,SMC3,H2AFVandH3F3Bprevented the MuSC identity drift. Amongst the epigenetic changes, a closing of chromatin at the gene encoding the transcription factorMEF2Bcaused a down-regulation of its expression and a loss of the myogenic fate. Thus, MEF2B is a key mediator of the myogenic identity in human MuSCs, that is altered in DMD pathology.
Published: 2023

19. Treatments and Outcomes for Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2: Findings from RESTORE Registry (P7-9.010)

Author: Laurent Servais, Kamal Benguerba, Darryl C. De Vivo, Jan Kirschner, Francesco Muntoni, Crystal Proud, Eduardo Tizzano, Susana Quijano-Roy, Isabelle Desguerre, Kyoko Saito, Dheeraj Raju, Nicole LaMarca, Rui Sun, Fred Anderson, Eric Faulkner, and Richard Finkel
Published: 2023

20. Neurological features related to influenza virus in the pediatric population: a 3-year monocentric retrospective study

Author: Violette Goetz, David-Dawei Yang, Hanene Abid, Charles-Joris Roux, Raphael Levy, Manoelle Kossorotoff, Isabelle Desguerre, François Angoulvant, and Mélodie Aubart
Subjects: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Published: 2023

21. Reply: De novo mutations in CLDN5: alternating hemiplegia of childhood or not?

Author: Isabelle Desguerre, Melodie Aubart, Yosuke Hashimoto, Karine Poirier, Anna Kaminska, Marianne Alison, Nathalie Boddaert, Arnold Munnich, and Matthew Campbell
Subjects: Neurology (clinical)
Published: 2023

22. Rituximab Therapy in the Treatment of Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis

Author: Agathe Molimard, Cyril Gitiaux, Christine Barnerias, Frédérique Audic, Arnaud Isapof, Ulrike Walther-Louvier, Claude Cances, Caroline Espil-Taris, Jean-Baptiste Davion, Susana Quijano-Roy, Coraline Grisel, Brigitte Chabrol, and Isabelle Desguerre
Subjects: Cortisone, Myasthenia Gravis, Humans, Immunologic Factors, Neurology (clinical), Child, Rituximab, Immunosuppressive Agents
Abstract: Background and ObjectivesCorticosteroids are the first-line immunosuppressants in the management of juvenile myasthenia gravis despite their adverse effects. The place of new immunosuppressive therapies is not clearly defined by the last international consensus held in March 2019 due to the lack of clinical trials. The aim of this study is to describe the use of rituximab and its efficacy and safety in 8 main pediatric centers of the French neuromuscular reference network to propose a new place in the therapeutic strategy of juvenile myasthenia gravis.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective multicenter study from January 1, 2009, to April 30, 2020, including a large cohort of children with myasthenia gravis in 8 main French pediatric reference centers of the FILNEMUS network. The type of myasthenia, different lines of immunosuppressive treatment, and clinical course of the patients were collected. To evaluate the efficacy of rituximab, we studied the clinical course of patients on immunosuppressive therapy. Outcome was defined as the clinical and therapeutic status of patients at the last visit: stable without immunosuppressants, stable with immunosuppressants, or unstable.ResultsWe included 74 patients: 18 children with ocular form and 56 children with generalized form. Of the 37 patients who required immunosuppressive therapy, 27 were treated with rituximab. Patients treated with rituximab had a better outcome than patients treated with conventional immunosuppressants (p= 0.006). The use of rituximab as a first-line immunosuppressant showed a better efficacy with a discontinuation of immunosuppressants in 75% of patients (vs 25%,p= 0.04) and results in cortisone sparing (42% vs 92%,p= 0.03) compared with rituximab treatment as a second- or third-line immunosuppression. Rituximab was well tolerated; no adverse effect was observed.DiscussionThe use of rituximab has increased in France over the last 10 years as a first-line immunosuppressant. This study suggests good tolerability and efficacy of rituximab in juvenile myasthenia gravis. Early use appears to improve outcomes and facilitate cortisone sparing in antibody-positive generalized juvenile myasthenia.Classification of EvidenceThis study provides Class III evidence that for children with MG, rituximab is effective and well tolerated.
Published: 2022

23. Safety and efficacy of once-daily risdiplam in type 2 and non-ambulant type 3 spinal muscular atrophy (SUNFISH part 2): a phase 3, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Author: Eugenio Mercuri, Nicolas Deconinck, Elena S Mazzone, Andres Nascimento, Maryam Oskoui, Kayoko Saito, Carole Vuillerot, Giovanni Baranello, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Nathalie Goemans, Janbernd Kirschner, Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, Laurent Servais, Marianne Gerber, Ksenija Gorni, Omar Khwaja, Heidemarie Kletzl, Renata S Scalco, Hannah Staunton, Wai Yin Yeung, Carmen Martin, Paulo Fontoura, John W Day, Joseph J. Volpe, John Posner, Ulrich Kellner, Rosaline Quinlivan, Aurore Daron, Stéphanie Delstanche, Romain Bruninx, Fabian Dal Farra, Olivier Schneider, Irina Balikova, Patricia Delbeke, Inge Joniau, Valentine Tahon, Sylvia Wittevrongel, Elke De Vos, Ingele Casteels, Liesbeth De Waele, Catherine Cassiman, Lies Prové, David Kinoo, Lisa Vancampenhout, Marleen Van Den Hauwe, Annelies Van Impe, Alexandra Prufer de Queiroz Campos Araujo, Aline Chacon Pereira, Flávia Nardes, Lorena Haefeli, Julia Rossetto, Marcos Ferreira Rebel, Jaqueline Almeida Pereira, Craig Campbell, Sapna Sharan, Wendy McDonald, Cheryl Scholtes, Jean Mah, Maria Sframeli, Angela Chiu, Jane Hagel, Raquel Beneish, Gaela Cariou-Palmer, Connie Pham, Daniela Toffoli, Stephanie Arpin, Sarah Turgeon Desilets, Yi Wang, Chaoping Hu, Jianfeng Huan, Chen Qian, Li Shen, Ying Xiao, Zhenxuan Zhou, Hui Li, Sujuan Wang, Hui Xiong, Xingzhi Chang, Hui Dong, Ying Liu, Tian Sang, Cuijie Wei, Jing Wen, Yiwen Cao, Xingyao Ly, Jingjing Zhao, Wenzhu Li, Lun Qin, Nina Barisic, Martina Galiot Delic, Petra Kristina Ivkic, Nenad Vukojevic, Ivana Kern, Boris Najdanovic, Marin Skugor, Teresa Gidaro, Andreea Seferian, Silvana De Lucia, Emmanuel Barreau, Nabila Mnafek, Marta Milkova Momtchilova, Helene Peche, Carole Valherie, Allison Grange, Charlotte Lilien, Darko Milascevic, Shotaro Tachibana, Claudia Ravelli, Ruxandra Cardas, Jessica Taytard, Guillaume Aubertin, Laure Vanden Brande, Jean-Baptiste Davion, Stephanie Coopman, Ikram Bouacha, Philippe Debruyne, Sabine Defoort, Gilles Derlyn, Florian Leroy, Loïc Danjoux, Julie Guilbaud, Isabelle Desguerre, Christine Barnérias, Michaela Semeraro, Dominique Bremond-Gignac, Lenaic Bruere, Maxence Rateaux, Élodie Deladrière, Virginie Germa, Yann Pereon, Sandra Mercie, Fanny Billaud, Lucie Le Goff, Guy Letellier, Aurélie Portefaix, Camille De-Montferrand, Laure Le-Goff, Stephanie Fontaine, Manel Saidi, Nabil Bouzid, Aurélie Barriere, Marie Tinat, Michelle Dreesbach, Wolf Lagréze, Bettina Michaelis, Fanni Molnar, Dorina Seger, Sibylle Vogt, Enrico Bertini, Adele D'Amico, Sergio Petroni, Anna Maria Bonetti, Adelina Carlesi, Irene Mizzoni, Claudio Bruno, Enrico Priolo, Giuseppe Rao, Simone Morando, Paola Tacchetti, Ambra Zuffi, Giacomo Pietro Comi, Roberta Brusa, Stefania Corti, Velardo Daniele, Alessandra Govoni, Francesca Magri, Valeria Minorini, Silvia Gabriella Osnaghi, Francesca Abbati, Federica Fassini, Michaela Foa, Amaqlia Lopopolo, Megi Meneri, Francesca Zoppas, Valeria Parente, Riccardo Masson, Stefania Bianchi Marzoli, Diletta Santarsiero, Myriam Garcia Sierra, Gemma Tremolada, Maria Teresa Arnoldi, Marta Vigano, Riccardo Zanin, Laura Antonaci, Roberto de Sanctis, Marika Pane, Maria Carmela Pera, Giulia Maria Amorelli, Costanza Barresi, Gugliemo D'Amico, Lorenzo Orazi, Giorgia Coratti, Kazuhiro Haginoya, Atsuko Kato, Yuko Morishita, Ryutaro Kira, Kiyomu Akiyama, Miwako Goto, Yujiro Mori, Misato Okamoto, Saki Tsutsui, Yuta Takatsuji, Aya Tanaka, Hirofumi Komaki, Miina Omori, Ippei Suzuki, Mizuki Takeuchi, Daisuke Todoroki, Seji Watanabe, Tomoko Matsubayashi, Emi Inakazu, Hiroe Nagura, Akira Suzuki, Manami Usui, Nobutsune Ishikawa, Yousuke Harada, Kenishi Fudeyasu, Kazuhiko Hirata, Kana Michiue, Kazuyuki Ueda, Junko Fujitani, Reiko Arakawa, Kozue Takano, Shigeko Yashiro, Maiko Seki, Nozomi Sano, Koji Fukuyama, Yuki Matsumoto, Hirofumi Miyazaki, Minoru Shibata, Kyoko Kobayashi, Yukie Nakamura, Yasuhiro Takeshima, Moe Kuma, Anna Fraczek, Maria Jedrzejowska, Anna Lusakowska, Agnieszka Czeszyk-Piotrowicz, Wojciech Hautz, Klaudia Rakusiewicz, Malgorzata Burlewicz, Zuzanna Gierlak-Wojcicka, Malwina Kepa, Adam Sikorski, Marcin Sobieraj, Maria Mazurkiewicz-Beldzinska, Anna Lemska, Sandra Modrzejewska, Mateusz Koberda, Urszula Stodolska-Koberda, Agnieszka Waskowska, Jagoda Kolendo, Agnieszka Sobierajska-Rek, Barbara Steinborn, Magdalena Dalz, Julia Grabowska, Wojciech Hajduk, Justyna Janasiewicz-Karachitos, Monika Klimas, Marcin Stopa, Ewa Gajewska, Beata Pusz, Dmitry Vlodavets, Evgenia Melnik, Natalya Leppenen, Nataliya Yupatova, Anastasya Monakhova, Yulia Papina, Olga Shidlovsckaia, Vedrana Milic Rasic, Vesna Brankovic, Ana Kosac, Olivera Djokic, Vesna Jakšic, Ana Pepic, Jelena Martinovic, Francina Munell Casadesus, Eduardo Tizzano, Nieves Martín Begué, Charlotte Wolley Dod, Olaia Subira, Bernat Planas Pascual, Esther Toro Tamargo, Marcos Madruga Garrido, José David Medina Romero, Marta Peña Salinas, Andrés Nascimento Osorio, Ana Díaz Cortés, Enrique Jiménez Gañan, Simone Dowon Suh, Julita Medina Cantillo, Obdulia Moya, Nuria Padros, Sandra Roca Urraca, Hugo Gonzalez Valdivia, Samuel Pascual Pascual, Sofía de Manuel, Susana Noval Martin, Paul Burnham, Sandra Espinosa, Mercedes Martinez Moreno, Haluk Topaloglu, Ibrahim Oncel, Nesibe Eroglu Ertugru, Bahadir Konuskan, Bora Eldem, Sibel Kadayifçilar, Ipek Alemdaroglu, Aynur Ayse Karaduman, Oznur Tunca Yilmaz, Neslihan Bilgin, Seher Sari, Claudia Chiriboga, John J. Lee, Donnielle Rome-Martin, John W. Day, Shannon Beres, Tina Duong, Richard Gee, Sally Dunaway Young, Sabine Fuerst-Recktenwald, Anne Marquet, Nicoletta Muelhardt, and Dylan Trundell
Subjects: Adult, Risdiplam, spinal muscular atrophy, Adolescent, Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, Young Adult, Pyrimidines, Settore MED/39 - NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE, Double-Blind Method, Child, Preschool, Humans, Neurology (clinical), Child, Preschool, Azo Compounds, Aged
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Risdiplam is an oral small molecule approved for the treatment of patients with spinal muscular atrophy, with approval for use in patients with type 2 and type 3 spinal muscular atrophy granted on the basis of unpublished data. The drug modifies pre-mRNA splicing of the SMN2 gene to increase production of functional SMN. We aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of risdiplam in patients with type 2 or non-ambulant type 3 spinal muscular atrophy. METHODS: In this phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, patients aged 2-25 years with confirmed 5q autosomal recessive type 2 or type 3 spinal muscular atrophy were recruited from 42 hospitals in 14 countries across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Participants were eligible if they were non-ambulant, could sit independently, and had a score of at least 2 in entry item A of the Revised Upper Limb Module. Patients were stratified by age and randomly assigned (2:1) to receive either daily oral risdiplam, at a dose of 5·00 mg (for individuals weighing =20 kg) or 0·25 mg/kg (for individuals weighing
Published: 2022

24. YWHAE loss of function causes a rare neurodevelopmental disease with brain abnormalities in human and mouse

Author: Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Stephan C. Collins, Ange-Line Bruel, Anna Mikhaleva, Christel Wagner, Valerie E. Vancollie, Quentin Thomas, Martin Chevarin, Mathys Weber, Carlos E. Prada, Alexis Overs, María Palomares-Bralo, Fernando Santos-Simarro, Marta Pacio-Míguez, Tiffany Busa, Eric Legius, Carlos A. Bacino, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Matthieu Egloff, Xavier Le Guillou, Maria Antonietta Mencarelli, Alessandra Renieri, Salvatore Grosso, Jonathan Levy, Blandine Dozières, Isabelle Desguerre, Antonio Vitobello, Yannis Duffourd, Christopher J. Lelliott, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Christophe Philippe, Laurence Faivre, and Binnaz Yalcin
Subjects: Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2023

25. Efficiency of continuous venous-venous hemodiafiltration in a life-threatening phenytoin poisoning: A case report

Author: Mehdi Oualha, Delphine Callot, Fabrice Lesage, Samira Ahmed Elie, Carine Farkh, Agathe Béranger, Jean-Sebastien Diana, Sylvain Renolleau, Laurent Chouchana, Nicolas Pallet, Pascal Houzé, and Isabelle Desguerre
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Status epilepticus, Intensive care unit, law.invention, law, medicine, Phenytoin poisoning, Pharmacology (medical), Renal replacement therapy, medicine.symptom, Intensive care medicine, business
Published: 2021

26. Prenatal‐onset of congenital neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with a novel <scp> CTSD </scp> mutation

Author: Sophie Rondeau, Cécile Masson, Suzanne Chartier, Lucile Boutaud, Catherine Caillaud, Philippe Roth, Clarisse Billon, Férechté Encha-Razavi, Louise Galmiche, Edouard Le Guillou, Yves Ville, Caroline Alby, Christine Bole-Feysot, Anne-Elodie Millischer, Stanislas Lyonnet, Pascale Sonigo, Isabelle Desguerre, Nathalie Boddaert, Charlotte Mechler, and Tania Attié-Bitach
Subjects: Embryology, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Microcephaly, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Cathepsin D, Prenatal diagnosis, Postnatal microcephaly, Toxicology, Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses, Pregnancy, medicine, Humans, Exome sequencing, business.industry, Neurodegeneration, Infant, Newborn, Brain, medicine.disease, Congenital neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, Mutation, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Female, Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, business, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Background Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) form a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders that share common neuropathological features. Although they are the first cause of neurodegenerative disorders in children, their congenital forms are rarely documented. They are classically due to mutations in the CTSD gene (the CLN10 disease). Affected newborns usually present severe microcephaly, seizures and respiratory failure leading to death within the first postnatal days or weeks. Cases We report on two siblings, in which exome sequencing identified a novel homozygous CTSD variant. The first sib presented at birth with seizures, rapidly progressive postnatal microcephaly and visual deficiency related to retinal dysfunction. Progressive neurological deterioration leads to death at the age of 24 months. Cathepsin D activity was reduced in the cultured fibroblasts of this patient. The second sib, a fetus of 36 weeks of gestation, was delivered after pregnancy termination for brain abnormalities (in accordance with French Legislation) suggesting a recurrence of the disease. Fetal postmortem examination disclosed neuropathological features consistent with NCL. Conclusions Congenital NCL related to CTSD mutations is a neuronal storage disorder that produces in the developing brain diffuse neurodegeneration and white matter atrophy resulting in a progressive and rapidly lethal microcephaly.
Published: 2021

27. Periodic electroencephalographic discharges and epileptic spasms involve cortico-striatal-thalamic loops on Arterial Spin Labeling Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Author: Monika Eisermann, Ludovic Fillon, Ana Saitovitch, Jennifer Boisgontier, Alice Vinçon-Leite, Volodia Dangouloff-Ros, Thomas Blauwblomme, Marie Bourgeois, Marie-Thérèse Dangles, Delphine Coste-Zeitoun, Patricia Vignolo-Diard, Mélodie Aubart, Manoelle Kossorotoff, Marie Hully, Emma Losito, Nicole Chemaly, Monica Zilbovicius, Isabelle Desguerre, Rima Nabbout, Nathalie Boddaert, and Anna Kaminska
Subjects: General Engineering
Abstract: Periodic discharges are a rare peculiar electroencephalogram pattern, occasionally associated with motor or other clinical manifestations, usually observed in critically ill patients. Their underlying pathophysiology remains poorly understood. Epileptic spasms in clusters and periodic discharges with motor manifestations share similar electroencephalogram pattern and some aetiologies of unfavourable prognosis such as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis or herpes encephalitis. Arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging identifies localizing ictal and inter-ictal changes in neurovascular coupling, therefore assumed able to reveal concerned cerebral structures. Here, we retrospectively analysed ictal and inter-ictal arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging in patients aged 6 months to 15 years (median 3 years 4 months) with periodic discharges including epileptic spasms, and compared these findings with those of patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy who never presented periodic discharges nor epileptic spasms as well as to those of age-matched healthy controls. Ictal electroencephalogram was recorded either simultaneously with arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging or during the close time lapse of patients’ periodic discharges, whereas inter-ictal examinations were performed during the patients’ active epilepsy but without seizures during the arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging. Ictal arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging was acquired in five patients with periodic discharges [subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (1), stroke-like events (3), West syndrome with cortical malformation (1), two of them also had inter-ictal arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging]. Inter-ictal group included patients with drug-resistant epileptic spasms of various aetiologies (14) and structural drug-resistant focal epilepsy (8). Cortex, striatum and thalamus were segmented and divided in six functional subregions: prefrontal, motor (rostral, caudal), parietal, occipital and temporal. Rest cerebral blood flow values, absolute and relative to whole brain, were compared with those of age-matched controls for each subregion. Main findings were diffuse striatal as well as cortical motor cerebral blood flow increase during ictal examinations in generalized periodic discharges with motor manifestations (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) and focal cerebral blood flow increase in corresponding cortical-striatal-thalamic subdivisions in lateralized periodic discharges with or without motor manifestations (stroke-like events and asymmetrical epileptic spasms) with straight topographical correlation with the electroencephalogram focus. For inter-ictal examinations, patients with epileptic spasms disclosed cerebral blood flow changes in corresponding cortical-striatal-thalamic subdivisions (absolute-cerebral blood flow decrease and relative-cerebral blood flow increase), more frequently when compared with the group of drug-resistant focal epilepsies, and not related to Vigabatrin treatment. Our results suggest that corresponding cortical-striatal-thalamic circuits are involved in periodic discharges with and without motor manifestations, including epileptic spasms, opening new insights in their pathophysiology and new therapeutical perspectives. Based on these findings, we propose a model for the generation of periodic discharges and of epileptic spasms combining existing pathophysiological models of cortical-striatal-thalamic network dynamics.
Published: 2022

28. Effect of nusinersen after three years of treatment in 61 young children with SMA type 1 or 2: a French real-life observational study

Author: frédérique AUDIC, Sonia M Dubois, Julien Durigneux, Christine Barnerias, Arnaud Isapof, Marie-Christine Nougues, Jean-Baptiste Davion, Christian Richelme, Carole Vuillerot, Laure Legoff, Pascal Sabouraud, Claude Cances, Vincent Laugel, Juliette Ropars, Caroline Espil-Taris, Valérie Trommsdorff, Anne Pervillé, Marta Gomez Garcia de la Banda, Hervé Testard, Mondher Chouchane, Ulrike Walther-Louvier, Cyril Schweizer, Cécile Halbert, Myriam Badri, Vanessa Pauly, Susana Quijano-Roy, Brigitte Chabrol, and Isabelle Desguerre
Abstract: Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic neuromuscular disorder due to an autosomal recessive mutation in the survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1) causing degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord and resulting in muscle atrophy. The aim of this paper is to report a 36-month follow-up of children with SMA treated with nusinersen before the age of 3 years. Change in motor function, nutritional and ventilatory support and orthopedics outcomes were evaluated at baseline and 36 months after intrathecal nusinersen and correlated with SMA type and SMN2 copy number. Results We report 88% of the patients who have gained new motor skills during the 3-years period, reaching standing without help and walking with help for 12/37 and 10/37 patients harboring 3 SMN2 copies respectively. No patients with 2 copies SMN2 can stand alone or walk. Patients bearing 3 copies of SMN2 are also more likely to be preserved from respiratory, nutritional and orthopedic complications than patients with 2 SMN2 copies. Conclusion Eventhough SMA patients improve with nusinersen, a lower number of SMN2 gene copies remains a predictor a of poorer evolution under treatment.
Published: 2022

29. Perioperative complications after posterior spinal fusion versus minimally invasive fusionless surgery in neuromuscular scoliosis: a comparative study

Author: Mathilde Gaume, Josiane Njiki, Isabelle Vaugier, Gilles Orliaguet, Delphine Verollet, Christophe Glorion, Aben Essid, Blaise Mbieleu, Justine Zini, Abdallah Fayssoile, Susana Quijano-Roy, Isabelle Desguerre, Lotfi Miladi, and Jean Bergounioux
Subjects: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery, General Medicine
Abstract: Early-onset scoliosis is a common deformity in neuromuscular disease. When conservative treatment becomes ineffective, several surgical options can be proposed. The most common technique is posterior spinal fusion (PSF) consisting of performing a multiple segmental instrumentation with pedicular screws on the full spine associated with decortication and bone graft. Minimally invasive fusionless surgery (MIFS) is an alternative to correct and fix definitively the spine without graft. The objective of this study was to compare early surgical inpatient period between PSF and MIFS in neuromuscular scoliosis.140 NMS operated by PSF or MIFS between 2012 and 2017 was retrospectively reviewed. The following data were compared between groups: general characteristics (age, sex, etiology), preoperative preparation (halo traction, noninvasive ventilation or tracheostomy), Cobb angle and pelvic obliquity correction, use of drugs (vasopressor and/or inotropes, expansion fluids, transfusion and volumes), postoperative complications, and need of noninvasive ventilation.75 patients were managed by PSF with a mean age of 14.3 ± 2.3y and 65 by MIFS with a mean age of 11.8 ± 3y. Average pelvic obliquity and major curve correction were similar postoperatively. Intraoperative blood transfusion was significantly more common in PSF group (OR, 14; 95% CI [6.3-33.0]). Vasopressors were used non-significantly more often in the PSF group and expansion fluids similar in the two groups. PSF group had more overall complications (OR, 4.6; 95% CI [2.3-9.8]), more infections (OR, 3.6; 95% CI [1.5-9.3]) and more hemodynamic complications (OR, 4.1; 95% CI [1.4-15.1]). Average intubation duration was 5 days in the PSF and 4 days in MIFS (p = 0.05).In this series of neuromuscular patients, the complication rate was reduced in MIFS comparatively to PSF, with lower blood transfusion and less infections.
Published: 2022

30. Neuroinflammatory Disease following Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Children

Author: Melodie Aubart, Charles-Joris Roux, Chloé Durrleman, Clarisse Gins, Marie Hully, Manoelle Kossorotoff, Cyril Gitiaux, Raphaël Levy, Florence Moulin, Agathe Debray, Zahra Belhadjer, Emilie Georget, Temi Kom, Philippe Blanc, Samer Wehbi, Mustapha Mazeghrane, Jeremie Tencer, Vincent Gajdos, Sebastien Rouget, Loic De Pontual, Romain Basmaci, Karima Yacouben, Francois Angoulvant, Marianne Leruez-Ville, Delphine Sterlin, Flore Rozenberg, Matthieu P. Robert, Shen-Ying Zhang, Nathalie Boddaert, Isabelle Desguerre, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (CHIV), Hôpital Louis Pasteur [Chartres], Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye - CHIPS [Poissy], Centre Hospitalier de Versailles André Mignot (CHV), Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal André Grégoire [Montreuil] (CHI André Gregoire), Hôpital Delafontaine, Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Denis [Ile-de-France], AP-HP - Hôpital Antoine Béclère [Clamart], Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien, Hôpital Jean Verdier [AP-HP], Hôpital Louis Mourier - AP-HP [Colombes], Hôpital Robert Debré Paris, Hôpital Robert Debré, Health data- and model- driven Knowledge Acquisition (HeKA), Inria de Paris, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC (UMR_S_1138 / U1138)), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC (UMR_S_1138 / U1138)), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], and Rockefeller University [New York]
Subjects: SARS-CoV-2, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neuroinflammatory Diseases, COVID-19, Humans, Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Autoantibodies
Abstract: International audience; ObjectiveTo describe neurologic, radiologic and laboratory features in children with central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory disease complicating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.Study designWe focused on CNS inflammatory diseases in children referred from 12 hospitals in the Paris area to Necker-Sick Children Reference Centre.ResultsWe identified 19 children who had a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and manifest a variety of CNS inflammatory diseases: encephalopathy, cerebellar ataxia, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, or optic neuritis. All patients had a history of SARS-CoV-2 exposure, and all tested positive for circulating antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. At the onset of the neurologic disease, SARS-CoV-2 PCR results (nasopharyngeal swabs) were positive in 8 children. Cerebrospinal fluid was abnormal in 58% (11/19) and magnetic resonance imaging was abnormal in 74% (14/19). We identified an autoantibody co-trigger in 4 children (myelin-oligodendrocyte and aquaporin 4 antibodies), representing 21% of the cases. No autoantibody was found in the 6 children whose CNS inflammation was accompanied by a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Overall, 89% of patients (17/19) received anti-inflammatory treatment, primarily high-pulse methylprednisolone. All patients had a complete long-term recovery and, to date, no patient with autoantibodies presented with a relapse.ConclusionsSARS2-CoV-2 represents a new trigger of postinfectious CNS inflammatory diseases in children.
Published: 2022

31. Indications and Safety of Rituximab in Pediatric Neurology: A 10-Year Retrospective Study

Author: Ai Tien Nguyen, Camille Cotteret, Chloé Durrleman, Christine Barnerias, Marie Hully, Cyril Gitiaux, Bettina Mesples, Jacinta Bustamante, Stéphanie Chhun, Claire Fayard, Salvatore Cisternino, Jean-Marc Treluyer, Isabelle Desguerre, and Mélodie Aubart
Subjects: Adult, B-Lymphocytes, Treatment Outcome, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Humans, Immunologic Factors, Neurology (clinical), Child, Rituximab, Retrospective Studies
Abstract: RTX is used off-label in several neurological inflammatory diseases in adults children patients. We conducted a study to assess indications and safety of rituximab (RTX) for children and to identify risk factors for early B-cell repopulation.A single-center retrospective study of children treated with RTX for a neurological disease between May 31, 2010, and May 31, 2020, was performed.A total of 77 children (median age, 8.9 years) were included. RTX was mostly used as second-line therapy in all groups of diseases (68%). Median dose was 1500 mg/msup2/supfor each patient. There were 13 clinical relapses (17%), 5 when B-cell depletion was complete. Adverse events were present in 6% of the cases. The factors influencing early B-cell repopulation were the recent infusion of intravenous Ig (P lt; 0.01) and the administration of less than 1500 mg/msup2/supduring the first RTX treatment (P = 0.04). The median time to B-cell repopulation seemed to be shorter (160 vs 186 days) when patients had plasmapheresis even when a 48-hour delay was observed with RTX infusions.This study confirms the good tolerance of RTX in the treatment of specific neurological disorders in a pediatric population. It also highlights risk factors for early B-cell repopulation and underlines the importance of B-cell monitoring.
Published: 2022

32. Recurrent de novo mutations in CLDN5 induce an anion-selective blood-brain barrier and alternating hemiplegia

Author: Yosuke Hashimoto, Karine Poirier, Nathalie Boddaert, Laurence Hubert, Melodie Aubart, Anna Kaminska, Marianne Alison, Isabelle Desguerre, Arnold Munnich, and Matthew Campbell
Subjects: Anions, Tight Junction Proteins, Blood-Brain Barrier, Mutation, Humans, Neurology (clinical), Claudin-5, Tight Junctions
Abstract: Claudin-5 is the most enriched tight junction protein at the blood–brain barrier. Perturbations in its levels of expression have been observed across numerous neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions; however, pathogenic variants in the coding sequence of the gene have never been reported previously. Here, we report the identification of a novel de novo mutation (c.178G>A) in the CLDN5 gene in two unrelated cases of alternating hemiplegia with microcephaly. This mutation (G60R) lies within the first extracellular loop of claudin-5 and based on protein modelling and sequence alignment, we predicted it would modify claudin-5 to become an anion-selective junctional component as opposed to a purely barrier-forming protein. Generation of stably transfected cell lines expressing wild-type or G60R claudin-5 showed that the tight junctions could still form in the presence of the G60R mutation but that the barrier against small molecules was clearly attenuated and displayed higher Cl− ion permeability and lower Na+ permeability. While this study strongly suggests that CLDN5 associated alternating hemiplegia is a channelopathy, it is also the first study to identify the conversion of the blood–brain barrier to an anion-selective channel mediated by a dominant acting variant in CLDN5.
Published: 2022
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33. Phenotypic spectrum and genomics of undiagnosed arthrogryposis multiplex congenital

Author: Ivo Gut, Sarah Grotto, Céline Bellesme, Arnold Munnich, Cyril Gitiaux, Jeanne Amiel, Chloé Quélin, Annie Laquerrière, Suonavy Khung, Hanitra Ranjatoelina-Randrianaivo, Luc Rigonnot, Christine Francannet, Loic Quevarec, Jérôme Bouligand, Fabienne Prieur, Alexandra Benachi, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Laurence Perrin, Judith Melki, Pierre-Simon Jouk, Flora Nolent, Tania Attié-Bitach, Delphine Héron, Marie-Line Jacquemont, Claire Beneteau, Fabien Guimiot, Laetitia Lambert, Sandra Mercier, Valérie Biancalana, Fanny Laffargue, Elise Boucher, Jean-Louis Bessereau, P. Landrieu, Annick Toutain, Alain Verloes, Alice Goldenberg, Philippe Latour, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Anne Guiochon-Mantel, Dan Mejlachowicz, Damien Sternberg, Haluk Topaloglu, Bruno Eymard, Géraldine Viot, Catherine Fallet-Bianco, Julien Saada, Isabelle Desguerre, Marie-Hélène Saint-Frison, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Sophie Blesson, Radka Stoeva, Alexandre J. Vivanti, Martine Bucourt, Pascaline Letard, Jérome Maluenda, Laurence Loeuillet, Lionel Van Maldergem, Didier Lacombe, Marcel Tawk, Michèle Granier, Stanislas Lyonnet, Anne-Lise Delezoide, Andrée Delahaye-Duriez, André Mégarbané, Marie Gonzales, Florence Petit, Juliette Piard, Laurence Faivre, Helene Verhelst, Bettina Bessières, Sabine Sigaudy, Sandra Whalen, Valérie Layet, Yline Capri, Fanny Pelluard, Emanuela Abiusi, Klaus Dieterich, Marie Vincent, Marine Legendre, Dana Jaber, Romulus Grigorescu, Florent Marguet, Eric Bieth, Helge Amthor, Christine Barnerias, Estelle Colin, Laetitia Trestard, Mathilde Nizon, Jelena Martinovic, Daniel Amram, and Nicoletta Resta
Subjects: musculoskeletal diseases, Artrogriposi múltiple congènita, Settore BIO/18 - GENETICA, human genetics, neuromuscular diseases, Genomics, Biology, CONTRACTURES, CLASSIFICATION, diseases, symbols.namesake, Diagnòstic, Gene mapping, arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, Exome Sequencing, OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS, Genetics, Medicine and Health Sciences, genomics, Humans, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Arthrogryposis, Sanger sequencing, Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, Genetic heterogeneity, SPINAL MUSCULAR-ATROPHY, Proteins, nervous system malformations, DYSTROPHY, Disease gene identification, GENE, Human genetics, Pedigree, ETIOLOGY, Phenotype, symbols, neuromuscular, Genètica, Transcription Factors
Abstract: BackgroundArthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is characterised by congenital joint contractures in two or more body areas. AMC exhibits wide phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity. Our goals were to improve the genetic diagnosis rates of AMC, to evaluate the added value of whole exome sequencing (WES) compared with targeted exome sequencing (TES) and to identify new genes in 315 unrelated undiagnosed AMC families.MethodsSeveral genomic approaches were used including genetic mapping of disease loci in multiplex or consanguineous families, TES then WES. Sanger sequencing was performed to identify or validate variants.ResultsWe achieved disease gene identification in 52.7% of AMC index patients including nine recently identified genes (CNTNAP1, MAGEL2, ADGRG6, ADCY6, GLDN, LGI4, LMOD3, UNC50 and SCN1A). Moreover, we identified pathogenic variants in ASXL3 and STAC3 expanding the phenotypes associated with these genes. The most frequent cause of AMC was a primary involvement of skeletal muscle (40%) followed by brain (22%). The most frequent mode of inheritance is autosomal recessive (66.3% of patients). In sporadic patients born to non-consanguineous parents (n=60), de novo dominant autosomal or X linked variants were observed in 30 of them (50%).ConclusionNew genes recently identified in AMC represent 21% of causing genes in our cohort. A high proportion of de novo variants were observed indicating that this mechanism plays a prominent part in this developmental disease. Our data showed the added value of WES when compared with TES due to the larger clinical spectrum of some disease genes than initially described and the identification of novel genes.
Published: 2022

34. Meta-analyses of deflazacort versus prednisone/prednisolone in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Author: Perry B Shieh, Gary Elfring, Panayiota Trifillis, Claudio Santos, Stuart W Peltz, Julie A Parsons, Susan Apkon, Basil T Darras, Craig Campbell, Craig M McDonald, Richard J Barohn, Enrico Bertini, Kate Bushby, Brigitte Chabrol, Emma Ciafaloni, Jaume Columer, Giacomi Pietro Comi, Anne Connolly, Richard S Finkel, Kevin M Flanigan, Nathalie Goemans, Michela Guglieri, Susan T Iannaccone, Kristi J Jones, Petra Kaufmann, Janbernd Kirschner, Jean K Mah, Katherine Mathews, Eugenio Mercuri, Francesco Muntoni, Yoram Nevo, Andrés Nascimento Osorio, Yann Péréon, Rosaline Quinlivan, J. Ben Renfroe, Barry Russman, Monique Ryan, Jacinda Sampson, Ulrike Schara, Kathryn Selby, Thomas Sejersen, Douglas M Sproule, H. Lee Sweeney, Már Tulinius, Juan J Vilchez, Giuseppe Vita, Thomas Voit, Stephanie Burns-Wechsler, Brenda Wong, Ted Abresch, Erik K Henricson, Kim Coleman, Michelle Eagle, Julaine Florence, Ed Gappmaier, Craig McDonald, Hoda Z Abdel-Hamid, Clemens Bloetzer, Russell J Butterfield, Jong-Hee Chae, Jahannaz Dastgir, Isabelle Desguerre, Raul G Escobar, Erika Finanger, Peter Heydemann, Imelda Hughes, Anna Kaminska, Peter Karachunski, Martin Kudr, Timothy Lotze, Alexandra Prufer de Queiroz Campos Araujo, Maria Bernadete Dutra de Resende, Gihan Tennekoon, Haluk Topaloglu, Ricardo Erazo Torricelli, Lindsay N Alfano, Meredith K James, Linda Lowes, Anna Mayhew, Elena S Mazzone, Leslie Nelson, and Kristy J Rose
Subjects: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, medicine.medical_specialty, nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Prednisolone, Population, Nonsense mutation, Placebo, chemistry.chemical_compound, Pregnenediones, Prednisone, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, education, deflazacort, Retrospective Studies, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Health Policy, prednisolone, medicine.disease, Ataluren, Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne, Deflazacort, meta-analysis, chemistry, Codon, Nonsense, prednisone, business, medicine.drug
Abstract: Aim: Compare efficacies of deflazacort and prednisone/prednisolone in providing clinically meaningful delays in loss of physical milestones in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Materials & methods: Placebo data from Phase IIb (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00592553) and ACT DMD (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01826487) ataluren nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy clinical trials were retrospectively combined in meta-analyses (intent-to-treat population; for change from baseline to week 48 in 6-min walk distance [6MWD] and timed function tests). Results: Significant improvements in change in 6-min walk distance with deflazacort versus prednisone/prednisolone (least-squares mean difference 39.54 m [95% CI: 13.799, 65.286; p = 0.0026]). Significant and clinically meaningful improvements in 4-stair climb and 4-stair descend for deflazacort versus prednisone/prednisolone. Conclusion: Deflazacort provides clinically meaningful delays in loss of physical milestones over 48 weeks compared with prednisone/prednisolone for patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Published: 2021

35. Skeletal Ryanodine Receptors Are Involved in Impaired Myogenic Differentiation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

Author: Jean-Marie Cuisset, Jérôme Cottalorda, Stefan Matecki, Gérald Hugon, Alain Lacampagne, Pierre Meyer, Cécile Notarnicola, Hugues Chevassus, Albano C. Meli, Pascal Sabouraud, François Rivier, Léonard Féasson, Mirna Khalil, Gilles Carnac, Jérémy Salvador, Claude Cances, Isabelle Desguerre, Physiologie & médecine expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles [U 1046] (PhyMedExp), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM), Centre d'investigation clinique de Toulouse (CIC 1436), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Cité (UPC), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Pôle Santé publique et médecine publique [CHU Toulouse], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Herrada, Anthony, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), and Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: Male, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Muscle Fibers, Skeletal, [SDV.BC.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology/Subcellular Processes [q-bio.SC], Muscle Development, Calcium in biology, Dystrophin, Myoblasts, 0302 clinical medicine, Myocyte, Biology (General), Child, Spectroscopy, Cells, Cultured, 0303 health sciences, [SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Ryanodine receptor, Myogenesis, Cell Differentiation, General Medicine, musculoskeletal system, Computer Science Applications, Chemistry, Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, medicine.anatomical_structure, Child, Preschool, myogenesis, tissues, Intracellular, musculoskeletal diseases, medicine.medical_specialty, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, QH301-705.5, Catalysis, Article, Inorganic Chemistry, Tacrolimus Binding Proteins, 03 medical and health sciences, ryanodine receptor, endomysial fibrosis, human, Internal medicine, [SDV.BC.BC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology/Subcellular Processes [q-bio.SC], medicine, Humans, Calcium Signaling, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Muscle, Skeletal, Molecular Biology, QD1-999, 030304 developmental biology, RYR1, business.industry, Organic Chemistry, Skeletal muscle, Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel, medicine.disease, Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne, Endocrinology, Calcium, business, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by progressive muscle wasting following repeated muscle damage and inadequate regeneration. Impaired myogenesis and differentiation play a major role in DMD as well as intracellular calcium (Ca2+) mishandling. Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum is mostly mediated by the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RYR1) that is required for skeletal muscle differentiation in animals. The study objective was to determine whether altered RYR1-mediated Ca2+ release contributes to myogenic differentiation impairment in DMD patients. The comparison of primary cultured myoblasts from six boys with DMD and five healthy controls highlighted delayed myoblast differentiation in DMD. Silencing RYR1 expression using specific si-RNA in a healthy control induced a similar delayed differentiation. In DMD myotubes, resting intracellular Ca2+ concentration was increased, but RYR1-mediated Ca2+ release was not changed compared with control myotubes. Incubation with the RYR-calstabin interaction stabilizer S107 decreased resting Ca2+ concentration in DMD myotubes to control values and improved calstabin1 binding to the RYR1 complex. S107 also improved myogenic differentiation in DMD. Furthermore, intracellular Ca2+ concentration was correlated with endomysial fibrosis, which is the only myopathologic parameter associated with poor motor outcome in patients with DMD. This suggested a potential relationship between RYR1 dysfunction and motor impairment. Our study highlights RYR1-mediated Ca2+ leakage in human DMD myotubes and its key role in myogenic differentiation impairment. RYR1 stabilization may be an interesting adjunctive therapeutic strategy in DMD.
Published: 2021

36. Pulmonary Function in Nonambulatory Patients with nmDMD from the STRIDE Registry and CINRG Duchenne Natural History Study: A Matched Cohort Analysis

Author: Joel Jiang, für die Stride und CINRG-DNHS-Studienärzte, Janbernd Kirschner, A. Guenther Bernert, P. Trifillis, Eugenio Mercuri, Allan Kristensen, Francesco Muntoni, Filippo Buccella, Mar Tulinius, Isabelle Desguerre, O. Nascimento, Craig M. McDonald, and Claudio Santos
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Matched cohort, business.industry, Internal medicine, medicine, STRIDE, business, Natural history study, Pulmonary function testing
Published: 2021

37. A multicenter cross-sectional French study of the impact of COVID-19 on neuromuscular diseases

Author: Vincent Laugel, Karim Wahbi, Lucie Isoline Pisella, Rabab Debs, Sarah Souvannanorath, Martial Mallaret, Thierry Kuntzer, Sylvain Nollet, Jean-Christophe Antoine, Maud Michaud, Rocío-Nur Villar-Quiles, Aude-Marie Grapperon, Sandrine Segovia-Kueny, Pascal Laforêt, Céline Tard, EL-Hadi Hammouda, Géraldine Merret, Kévin Bigaut, Juliette Svahn, Laurent Kremer, Armelle Magot, Jean-Baptiste Noury, Guillemette Beaudonnet, Louise Debergé, Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza, Diane Friedman, Yann Péréon, Emmanuelle Salort-Campana, Pascal Cintas, Sara Fernandes, David H. Adams, Annamaria Molon, Fanny Duval, Anthony Behin, Shahram Attarian, Frédérique Audic, Jean-Philippe Camdessanché, Isabelle Desguerre, Tanya Stojkovic, Françoise Bouhour, Marion Masingue, Guilhem Solé, Caroline Espil-Taris, Savine Vicart, Jean-Baptiste Chanson, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre de recherche en Myologie – U974 SU-INSERM, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Lille, Troubles cognitifs dégénératifs et vasculaires - U 1171 - EA 1046 (TCDV), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), CHU Strasbourg, Hôpital neurologique et neurochirurgical Pierre Wertheimer [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Hôpital Bicêtre, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Hôpital Raymond Poincaré [AP-HP], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), CHU Henri Mondor [Créteil], Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Paris-Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire (PARCC (UMR_S 970/ U970)), Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou [APHP] (HEGP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Lausanne University Hospital, Handicap neuromusculaire : Physiopathologie, Biothérapie et Pharmacologies appliquées (END-ICAP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], AP-HP Hôpital Bicêtre (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre), Association française contre les myopathies (AFM-Téléthon), Admin, Oskar, Troubles cognitifs dégénératifs et vasculaires - U 1171 (TCDV), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), CHU Henri Mondor, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne (CHU de Saint-Etienne), Thérapie des maladies du muscle strié, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], and CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Cross-sectional study, Population, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Internal medicine, Health care, medicine, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), Risk factor, education, Myopathy, Pandemics, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, Research, COVID-19, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Myasthenia gravis, 3. Good health, Neuromuscular diseases, Cross-Sectional Studies, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Cohort, Medicine, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Background Due to their health condition, patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are at greater risk of developing serious complications with COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 among NMD patients and the risk factors for its impact and severity during the first wave of the pandemic. Clinical data were collected from NMD-COVID-19 patients, between March 25, 2020 and May 11, 2020 in an anonymous survey carried out by expert physicians from the French Health Care Network Filnemus. Results Physicians reported 84 patients, including: 34 with myasthenia gravis, 27 with myopathy and 23 with neuropathy. COVID-19 had no effect on NMD for 48 (58%) patients and 48 (58%) patients developed low COVID-19 severity. COVID-19 caused the death of 9 (11%) NMD patients. Diabetic patients were at greater risk of dying. Patients with diabetes, hypertension or severe forms of NMD had a higher risk of developing a moderate or severe form of COVID-19. In our cohort, corticosteroids and other immunosuppressants were not significantly associated with higher COVID-19 severity for acquired NMD. Conclusion During this period, a small percentage of French NMD patients was affected by COVID-19 compared to the general French population and COVID-19 had a limited short-term effect on them. Diabetes, hypertension and a severe degree of NMD were identified as risk factors of unfavorable outcome following COVID-19. Conversely, in our cohort of patients with acquired NMD, corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants did not appear to be risk factors for more severe COVID-19.
Published: 2021

38. SMA – OUTCOME MEASURES AND REGISTRIES

Author: P. Laforêt, P. Saugier-Veber, Yann Péréon, Carole Vuillerot, L. Grimaldi-Bensouda, T. Stojkovic, Anthony Behin, Jon Andoni Urtizberea, Claude Cances, Vincent Laugel, Susana Quijano-Roy, Christine Barnerias, Frédérique Audic, Emmanuelle Campana-Salort, Sabrina Sacconi, Isabelle Desguerre, Brigitte Chabrol, C. Espil, Céline Tard, and M. Gomez Garcia de la Banda
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Neurology, business.industry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Outcome measures, Physical therapy, medicine, Neurology (clinical), SMA, business, Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2021

39. COLLAGEN RELATED MUSCLE DISEASES

Author: Y. Elaribi, K. Benistan, F. Jobic, Florence Demurger, Marie-Christine Nougues, Jean-Marie Cuisset, A. Afenjar, Arnaud Isapof, Sandra Whalen, Vincent Laugel, Corinne Metay, Valérie Jobic, Christine Barnerias, Ana Ferreiro, Isabelle Desguerre, A. Benezit, J. Davion, S. Quijano, Judith Melki, and P. Richard
Subjects: Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology (clinical), Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2021

40. SMA CLINICAL DATA

Author: A. Oulhissane, I. Doehring, Helge Amthor, Isabelle Desguerre, Lotfi Miladi, Christophe Glorion, Robert-Yves Carlier, Mathilde Gaume, M. Gomez-Garcia de la Banda, Ivana Dabaj, Susana Quijano-Roy, Jean Bergounioux, D. Verollet, Christine Barnerias, V. Azzi-Salameh, Aben Essid, B. Mbieleu, Audrey Benezit, and Etienne Saudeau
Subjects: Orthodontics, Neurology, business.industry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Medicine, Neurology (clinical), business, SMA, Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2021

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