Clinical and biochemical study of 29 Brazilian patients with metachromatic leukodystrophy

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Artigalás, Osvaldo ^a,b   Lagranha, Valeska Lizzi ^a,b   Saraiva Pereira, Maria Luiza ^a,b   Burin, Maira Graeff ^a   Lourenço, Charles Marques ^c   Van Der Linden, Hélio ^d   Santos, Mara Lúcia Ferreira ^e   Rosemberg, Sergio ^f   Steiner, Carlos Eduardo ^g   Kok, Fernando ^c   De Souza, Carolina F Moura ^a   Jardim, Laura B ^a,b   Giugliani, Roberto ^a,b   Schwartz, Ida Vanessa ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Center for Disability and Rehabilitation   (Brazil)

^e HOSPITAL PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

^f Assistant Prof Internal Medicine Dept Santa Casa School of Medicine and Hospitals of São Paulo   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CEREBROSIDE SULFATASE; SULFATIDE;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; URINE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE DISEASE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MENTAL DISEASE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAZIL; CEREBROSIDE-SULFATASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTES; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFOGLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897925533     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: 15732665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-010-9140-4     Document Type: Article

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