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Vagal and sympathetic heart rate and blood pressure control in adult onset PHOX2B mutation-confirmed congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.
Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society - 1 Jun 2007
Diedrich André, Malow Beth A, Antic Nick A, Sato Kyoko, McEvoy R Doug, Mathias Christopher J, Robertson David, Berry-Kravis Elizabeth M, Weese-Mayer Debra E
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BACKGROUND: Children with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS) typically present as newborns with alveolar hypoventilation. With the advent of genetic testing, parents of affected children and other unrelated adults, all heterozygous for the disease-defining PHOX2B polyalanine expansion mutation with the 20/25 genotype, are being identified in adulthood. Though children with PHOX2B...
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