International Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Adrenoleukodystrophy: A

Marc Engelen1, Wouter J C van Ballegoij2, Eric James Mallack2

  • 1From the Department of Pediatric Neurology/Emma Children's Hospital (M.E., W.J.C.B., I.C.H.), Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Division of Child Neurology (E.J.M.), Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, NY; Department of Neurology & Pediatrics/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (K.P.V.H.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 4. Department of Neurology, Leukodystrophy Clinic, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Germany; Unit of Rare Neurodegenerative and Neurometabolic Diseases (E.S.), Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milano, Italy; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology/Emma Children's Hospital (A.S.P.T.), Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; AP-HP (F.M.), Department of Medical Genetics, Reference Center for Adult Neurometabolic Diseases and Leukodystrophies, and INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, La Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Pediatric Neurology/Hôpital Bicêtre Paris Sud (C.S.), France, Reference Center for Children Leukodystrophies Inserm U1127, ICM-Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (M.O.R.), Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Neuroendocrine Unit (N.A.T.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School (N.A.T.), Boston, MA; Division of Pediatric Endocrinology (A.H.), Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, and Harvard Medical School (A.H.), Boston, MA; Charles Dent Metabolic Unit (R.H.L.), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom; Metabolic Medicine (J.D.), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London United Kingdom; Department of Genetic Medicine (G.V.R.), Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy (T.L., P.J.O.), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Pediatric Oncology (J.-S.K.), Hematology, Hemostaseology, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany; Pediatric Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation (C.A.L.), Princess Maxima Center Utrecht, the Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics (C.A.L.), Wilhemina Children's Hospital, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Director of Pediatric Neuroimaging (P.C.), Lenox Hill Radiology and Medical Imaging Associates, New York, NY; Moser Center for Leukodystrophies (B.R.T., A.F.), Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Department of Neurogenetics (A.B.M.), Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD; Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases (F.M.V., S.F., S.K.), Department of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Department of Neurology (F.S.E.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Dr. van Ballegoij is currently at the Department of Neurology, Zaans Medisch Centrum, Zaandam. m.engelen@amsterdamumc.nl.

Neurology
|September 29, 2022
PubMed

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