Publications by authors named "Leontyeva I"
Article Synopsis
- Barth syndrome is a rare genetic disorder linked to abnormal cardiolipin metabolism, leading to high mortality rates, especially from heart issues and infections within 5 years of being diagnosed.
- The article presents a clinical case of an adult patient, highlighting the disease's progression from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to hypokinetic cardiomyopathy as the patient aged.
- It emphasizes the challenges in finding effective treatment options for Barth syndrome due to a lack of definitive guidelines and targeted therapies in clinical practice.
This study includes 90 children (41 female and 49 male) in the age range of 2-16 years with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Thirty-three patients developed ADEM following rubella infection, 26 children following varicella infection, 20 suspected viral aetiology ADEM and 11 multiphasic disseminated encephalomyelitis (MDEM). All patients had neurological, routine laboratory and viral serology study with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
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