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Niemann-Pick type C as a cause of progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration in childhood.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2017 September
AIM: To describe the cases of Niemann-Pick type C (NP-C) disease in a United Kingdom epidemiological study of progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration in childhood.
METHOD: Paediatricians notified cases via the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit between 1997 and 2015.
RESULTS: Fifty-three NP-C patients were identified: 29 females, 24 males. Fifteen cases had a systemic presentation (neonatal jaundice and/or hepatosplenomegaly). Thirty-eight had a neurological onset, the commonest presenting symptom being gait disturbance/ataxia (29 cases, 76%). Forty-nine cases eventually had neurological problems, the commonest were school/cognitive difficulties (40, 82%), seizures (33, 67%), dysphagia (20, 41%), dysarthria (18, 37%), cataplexy (17, 35%), and visual deterioration (8, 16%); their commonest abnormal physical signs were vertical supranuclear gaze palsy (35, 71%), hypotonia (19, 39%) and hepatosplenomegaly (19, 39%). The median diagnostic delay in the 38 neurological onset cases was 3 years (range 0.3-12.8). Confirmatory investigations included filipin staining of skin fibroblasts (42 cases), bone marrow examination in 30 (the last in 2011), and increasingly DNA studies, mutations in NP-C1 being found in 20 cases.
INTERPRETATION: NP-C should be considered in children with progressive neurological deterioration. Subtle neurological problems combined with a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and/or hepatosplenomegaly may provide early evidence of the disease.
METHOD: Paediatricians notified cases via the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit between 1997 and 2015.
RESULTS: Fifty-three NP-C patients were identified: 29 females, 24 males. Fifteen cases had a systemic presentation (neonatal jaundice and/or hepatosplenomegaly). Thirty-eight had a neurological onset, the commonest presenting symptom being gait disturbance/ataxia (29 cases, 76%). Forty-nine cases eventually had neurological problems, the commonest were school/cognitive difficulties (40, 82%), seizures (33, 67%), dysphagia (20, 41%), dysarthria (18, 37%), cataplexy (17, 35%), and visual deterioration (8, 16%); their commonest abnormal physical signs were vertical supranuclear gaze palsy (35, 71%), hypotonia (19, 39%) and hepatosplenomegaly (19, 39%). The median diagnostic delay in the 38 neurological onset cases was 3 years (range 0.3-12.8). Confirmatory investigations included filipin staining of skin fibroblasts (42 cases), bone marrow examination in 30 (the last in 2011), and increasingly DNA studies, mutations in NP-C1 being found in 20 cases.
INTERPRETATION: NP-C should be considered in children with progressive neurological deterioration. Subtle neurological problems combined with a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and/or hepatosplenomegaly may provide early evidence of the disease.
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