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Liver transplant in ethylmalonic encephalopathy: a new treatment for an otherwise fatal disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2016
Dionisi-Vici Carlo, Diodato Daria, Torre Giuliano, Picca Stefano, Pariante Rosanna, Giuseppe Picardo Sergio, Di Meo Ivano, Rizzo Cristiano, Tiranti Valeria, Zeviani Massimo, De Ville De Goyet Jean
Abstract excerpt
Ethylmalonic encephalopathy is a fatal, rapidly progressive mitochondrial disorder caused by ETHE1 mutations, whose peculiar clinical and biochemical features are due to the toxic accumulation of hydrogen sulphide and of its metabolites, including thiosulphate. In mice with ethylmalonic encephalopathy, liver-targeted adeno-associated virus-mediated ETHE1 gene transfer dramatically improved both clinical course...
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