151. Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome: clinical and neuroradiological findings of a genetically proven patient
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Angelo Schenone, Cristina Cereda, Margherita Monti Bragadin, Matteo Pardini, Laura Doria-Lamba, Luca Roccatagliata, Monica Bandettini di Poggio, Andrea Rossi, and L. Reni
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Hearing loss ,Hearing Loss, Sensorineural ,Bulbar Palsy, Progressive ,Neural Conduction ,Disease ,Neurological disorder ,Brown–Vialetto–Van Laere syndrome ,Genotype ,medicine ,Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem ,Humans ,Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ,Child ,Bulbar palsy ,Palsy ,business.industry ,Brain ,Immunoglobulins, Intravenous ,Membrane Transport Proteins ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Neurology ,Mutation ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
The Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome (BVVLS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by progressive pontobulbar palsy, sensorineural deafness and mixed spinal and upper motor neuropathy. Mutations in the C20orf54 gene have been linked to the disease and recently we reported the first Italian case of a BVVLS family with an intriguing C20orf54 genotype. However, the pathomechanisms underlying BVVLS are still unknown. Here we present the particular disease course with partial response to immunosuppressive therapy of our BVVLS patient for whom we hypothesize that dysimmune factors may have played a role in disease physiopathology.
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- 2013