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Ethylmalonic Encephalopathy: a literature review and two new cases of mild phenotype.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Nov 2023
Platt Isobel, Bisgin Atil, Kilavuz Sebile
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ethylmalonic encephalopathy (EE) is a rare intoxication-type metabolic disorder with multisystem involvement. It is caused by mutations in ETHE1, which encodes the ETHE1 enzyme in the mitochondrial matrix that plays a key role in hydrogen sulfide (H2S) detoxification acting as a sulphur dioxygenase. RESULTS: This review focuses on the clinical, metabolic, genetic and neuroradiological features of 70...
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