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Achilles swelling and ataxia in an adolescent: A case report of cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

Radiology Case Reports, 2022
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare hereditary disease characterized by a bile acid metabolic problem that causes cholesterol metabolites to accumulate in various organs. There are 2 types of CTX: traditional and spinal.
Hind Sahli, MD, Jihane El. Mandour, MD, Jihad Boularab, MD, Issam En-nafaa, PhD,MD, Jamal El. Fenni, PhD,MD, Aziz Hommadi, PhD,MD   +5 more
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Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis: A practice review of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis represents a rare and underdiagnosed inherited neurometabolic disorder due to homozygous or compound heterozygous variants involving the CYP27A1 gene.
Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega, Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega, Anderson Moura Bernardes, Rodrigo Mariano Ribeiro, Sophia Costa Vasconcelos, David Augusto Batista Sá Araújo, Vitor Carneiro de Vasconcelos Gama, Helena Fussiger, Helena Fussiger, Carolina de Figueiredo Santos, Carolina de Figueiredo Santos, Daniel Aguiar Dias, André Luíz Santos Pessoa, André Luíz Santos Pessoa, Wladimir Bocca Vieira de Rezende Pinto, Jonas Alex Morales Saute, Jonas Alex Morales Saute, Jonas Alex Morales Saute, Paulo Victor Sgobbi de Souza, Pedro Braga-Neto, Pedro Braga-Neto   +20 more
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Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

Current Opinion in Lipidology, 2013
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare neurological disease characterized by accumulation of cholesterol and cholestanol in brain and tendons caused by a mutation in the sterol 27-hydroxylase gene (CYP27A1). The mechanism behind the accumulation of cholestanol in the brain was recently clarified and a role of 27-hydroxycholesterol as a ...
Partha Pratim Halder, Malabika Biswas, Apurba Ghosh   +2 more
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Adult-Onset Treatable Leukodystrophy: Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis

Neuropsychiatric Investigation, 2022
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a leukodystrophy resulting from sterol 27-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency caused by CYP27A1 gene mutations. It is characterized by diarrhea and cataract in children, xanthomas in adolescents, and progressive neurologic ...
Gülçin Benbir Şenel, Hikmet Abbaszade, Şeyma Tekgül, Nazlı Başak, Hülya Apaydın   +4 more
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A Treatable Rare Cause of Progressive Ataxia and Palatal Tremor

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2018
Background: Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a rare autosomal recessive neurometabolic disorder characterized by chronic diarrhea, tendon xanthomas, juvenile cataracts, and neurological symptoms.
Malco Rossi, Martin Cesarini, Emilia M. Gatto, Angel Cammarota, Marcelo Merello   +4 more
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Egy ritka, veleszületett neurodegeneratív betegség: a cerebrotendinosus xanthomatosis laboratóriumi diagnosztikája [PDF]

, 2014
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a rare neurodegenerative disease characterized by the accumulation of cholesterol and cholestanol in the brain and the tendons caused by mutations of the gene encoding sterol 27-hydroxylase (CYP27A1), which is involved ...
Balogh István, Harangi János, Harangi Mariann, Kapás István, Katkó Mónika, Kovács G. Gábor, Madar László, Molnár Mária Judit, Paragh György, Seres Ildikó, Varga Viktória Evelin   +10 more
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Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis: Possibility of founder mutation in CYP27A1 gene (c.526delG) in Eastern Indian and Surinamese population

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, 2015
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a lipid storage disease characterized by diarrhea, cataract, tendon xanthoma and neurological regression if untreated. CYP27A1 is the only gene in which mutations are known to cause Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.
Atanu Kumar Dutta, Sumita Danda, Karthik Muthusamy, Mathew Alexander, Sniya Valsa Sudhakar, Samuel Hansdak, Rini Bandyopadhyay, G.B. Bakhya Shree, L. Rekha   +8 more
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Metabolic profiling in serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain of patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis [PDF]

, 2021
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is caused by autosomal recessive loss of function mutations in CYP27A1 resulting in altered bile acid and lipid metabolism.
Batta, Bavner, Berginer, Berginer, Bhattacharyya, Bindl, Bjorkhem, Björkhem, Cali, Chiang, Chiang, Crick, Crick, DeBarber, Duane, Duell, Ellis, Griffiths, Griffiths, Heverin, Kim, Li, Lutjohann, Lv, Mackay, Meaney, Nie, Piguet, Pilo de la Fuente, Popp, Radhakrishnan, Salen, Salen, Schols, Smith, Stelten, Theofilopoulos, Uhlen, Vaz   +38 more
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A rare metabolic disease: cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

Van Tıp Dergisi, 2019
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a rare autosomal recessive disorder. It occurs as a mutation in the CYP27A1 gene with nine exons in the Long arm of chromosome 2.
Tülay Kamaşak, Yeseren Nil Demirhan, Burcu Parıltan Kücükalioglu, Cavit Boz, Alper Han Cebi, İlker Eyüboğlu, Ali Cansu   +6 more
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Case Report: Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2009
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a rare genetic disorder. We present and discuss the clinical, radiological, and histopathologic findings in a 36-year-old woman who had juvenile cataract, childhood diarrhea, mental retardation, cerebellar ataxia, and ...
Amit A Karandikar, S Pushparajan, Madhavan N Unni, R Srinivas   +3 more
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