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Is Motor Performance in 5.5-Year-Old Children Associated with the Presence of Generalized Joint Hypermobility?

J Pediatr

September 2015

Education of Physiotherapy, University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital Amsterdam (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) in Dutch children aged 5.5 years, and to examine the association between GJH and motor performance and development over time.

Study Design: A prospective cohort of 249 children was recruited.

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A one-year-old boy suffering from intermittent lactic acidosis, muscular hypotonia, horizontal gaze paralysis and spasticity in both legs had low activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex associated with low amounts of immunoreactive E 1 alpha and E 1 beta. Leigh syndrome was diagnosed on the basis of the clinical and biochemical abnormalities and the typical lesions observed on MRI of the brain. Treatment with a ketogenic diet was associated with clinical and biochemical amelioration.

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