Publications by authors named "Eva Forman"

Heterozygous mutations in are associated with an early-onset, progressive and often complex dystonia (DYT28). Key characteristics of typical disease include focal motor features at disease presentation, evolving through a caudocranial pattern into generalized dystonia, with prominent oromandibular, laryngeal and cervical involvement. Although -related disease is emerging as one of the most common causes of early-onset genetic dystonia, much remains to be understood about the full spectrum of the disease.

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  • Leucine aminoacyl tRNA-synthetase 1 (LARS1)-deficiency is linked to infantile liver failure syndrome and presents with symptoms like acute liver failure, neurological issues, and seizures.
  • Cranial MRIs show characteristic changes in brain structures during encephalopathic episodes, with infections often triggering these episodes, which involve seizures and impaired consciousness.
  • The study emphasizes the importance of managing infections and ensuring proper nutrition, along with recommending vaccinations to prevent severe episodes during flu infections.
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Background: NRXN1 deletions are identified as one of major rare risk factors for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. ASD has 30% co-morbidity with epilepsy, and the latter is associated with excessive neuronal firing. NRXN1 encodes hundreds of presynaptic neuro-adhesion proteins categorized as NRXN1α/β/γ.

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  • Heterozygous mutations in the KMT2B gene are linked to early-onset dystonia (DYT28), featuring motor problems that start locally and can spread throughout the body, particularly affecting the face and neck.
  • A study of 53 patients with KMT2B mutations revealed new disease presentations and identified various health issues, such as growth retardation and endocrine disorders, as well as a higher impact on patients with more severe genetic variants.
  • Patients who underwent deep brain stimulation for severe dystonia showed significant improvement in motor function and disability over time, with more than half experiencing over 30% improvement at the one-year mark.
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Dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterised by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal movements, postures or both. Dystonia is a challenging condition to diagnose and treat. Dystonia is often under-recognised in children, particularly in cerebral palsy, and frequently coexists with spasticity.

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X-linked infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMAX2), OMIM 301830, is a rare, severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, caused by variants in the Ubiquitin like modifier-activating enzyme 1 (UBA1) gene. Clinical features reported to date include marked hypotonia, areflexia, arthrogryposis, contractures, myopathic facies and tongue fibrillations. Previous reports have included a history of contractures.

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Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a high co-morbidity of epilepsy and associated with hundreds of rare risk factors. deletion is among the commonest rare genetic factors shared by ASD, schizophrenia, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and developmental delay. However, how deletions lead to different clinical symptoms is unknown.

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Herein we present two siblings with hereditary spastic paraplegia caused by novel compound heterozygous variant and deletion in and expansion of the disease spectrum to include dysphonia.

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The spectrum of phenotypes associated with heterozygous deletions of neurexin-1 (NRXN1) is diverse and includes: autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, seizures, schizophrenia, mood disorders and congenital malformations. Reduced penetrance and variable expressivity of deletions in this gene remain a challenge for genetic counselling. We clinically reviewed 67 NRXN1 deletions from 34 families to document the phenotype and determine odds ratio.

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Movement disorders are increasingly identified in infantile encephalopathies due to single gene disorders (e.g. SCN2A, CDKL5, ARX).

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BackgroundNoninvasive hemodynamic monitoring of infants with neonatal encephalopathy (NE) undergoing therapeutic hypothermia (TH) would be a potentially useful clinical tool. We aimed to assess the feasibility and reliability of noninvasive cardiac output monitoring (NICOM) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in this cohort.MethodsNICOM and NIRS were commenced to measure cardiac output (CO), systemic vascular resistance (SVR), blood pressure (BP), and cerebral regional oxygen saturations (SctO) during TH and rewarming.

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Background And Aims: There is a paucity of data on left ventricle (LV) rotational physiology in neonates. We aimed to assess rotational mechanics in infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and premature infants (<32 weeks) at 36 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA) (preterm group) and compare them with healthy term controls (term controls). We also compared the parameters in preterm infants with and without chronic lung disease (CLD).

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Childhood onset motor neuron diseases or neuronopathies are a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders. A particularly severe subgroup first described in 1894, and subsequently called Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome, is characterized by progressive pontobulbar palsy, sensorineural hearing loss and respiratory insufficiency. There has been no treatment for this progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which leads to respiratory failure and usually death during childhood.

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