Walsh & Hoyt: Autosomal Recessive Ataxias

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Title Walsh & Hoyt: Autosomal Recessive Ataxias
Creator Parashkev Nachev, PhD, MRCP(UK); Christopher Kennard, PhD, FRCP, FMed Sci
Affiliation (PN) University College London; (CK) University of Oxford
Subject Neurodegenerative Diseases; Metabolic Diseases; Adult; Cerebellar Disorders; Autosomal Recessive Ataxias
Description A number of recessively inherited conditions with onset in infancy and childhood are characterized in part by ataxia. The ataxia may be intermittent, occurring from the accumulation of neurotoxic circulating metabolites, such as ammonia, or it may be persistent and progressive. These disorders are described in Chapter 46, and only brief mention is made here of those progressive conditions that can present in early adulthood. Hexaminidase A deficiency. Vitamin E deficiency. Abetalipoproteinemia (Bassen-Kornzweig disease). Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency(AVED). Ataxia telangiectasia (AT). Friedreichs ataxia (FA).
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 186134
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k96h0c
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