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Dr. van der Knaap used MRI as well as magnetic-resonance spectroscopy and determined that ongoing cystic degeneration of the cerebral white matter [2] and matter rarefaction [7] was more descriptive of the disease rather than hypomyelination and proposed the name vanishing white matter. [2] The name proposed by Dr. Schiffmann in 1994, childhood ...
While all leukodystrophies are the result of genetic mutations, [3] other demyelinating disorders have an autoimmune, infectious, or metabolic etiology. [4] When damage occurs to white matter, subsequent immune responses can lead to inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS), along with the loss of myelin.
These children may have excessive vomiting, difficulty swallowing and speaking, poor coordination, and loss of motor control. Adult-onset forms of Alexander disease are less common. The symptoms sometimes mimic those of Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis , or may present primarily as a psychiatric disorder .
The white matter in preterm born children is particularly vulnerable during the third trimester of pregnancy when white matter developing takes place and the myelination process starts around 30 weeks of gestational age. [3]
Candida albicans infection; Candida parapsilosis infection; Cytomegalovirus infection; diphtheria; human coronavirus infection; respiratory distress syndrome; measles; meconium aspiration syndrome
There is no causal evidence to support the hypothesis that problems in labor contribute to the development of softening in infant white matter. [8] Also, further evidence shows a possible connection between low sugar and high protein levels in cerebral spinal fluid that can contribute to disease or virus susceptibility leading to cerebral ...
White dog shaker syndrome; White dot syndromes; White spot syndrome; White-nose syndrome; Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome; Wiedemann–Rautenstrauch syndrome; Wildervanck syndrome; Williams syndrome; Williams–Campbell syndrome; Wilson's temperature syndrome; Wilson–Mikity syndrome; Wilson–Turner syndrome; Winchester syndrome; Winter-over ...
Polymicrogyria is a disorder of neuronal migration, resulting in structurally abnormal cerebral hemispheres. The Greek roots of the name describe its salient feature: many [poly] small [micro] gyri (convolutions in the surface of the brain).