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Clinical features of a female with WDR45 mutation complicated by infantile spasms: a case report and literature review.
Brain & development - 1 Oct 2017
Morikawa Manami, Takano Kyoko, Motobayashi Mitsuo, Shiba Naoko, Kosho Tomoki, Nakazawa Yozo, Inaba Yuji
Abstract excerpt
We present a 3-year-old girl with beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) who had a de novo heterozygous splice-site mutation of c.831-1G>C in WDR45 and developed infantile spasms; her onset age of infantile spasms was relatively late. Her infantile spasms and hypsarrhythmia disappeared promptly by adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy (CORTROSYN®Z, 0.0125mg/kg/day daily for 2weeks...
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