Niemann-Pick type C Suspicion Index tool: analyses by age and association of manifestations

Autor: James E. Wraith, Christian J. Hendriksz, Michael C Fahey, Frits A. Wijburg, Frédéric Sedel, Stefan A. Kolb, Mark Walterfang, Mercedes Pineda, Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, Marc C. Patterson
Přispěvatelé: AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Paediatric Metabolic Diseases
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 37(1), 93-101. Springer Netherlands
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
ISSN: 1573-2665
0141-8955
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-013-9626-y
Popis: Objective The Suspicion Index (SI) screening tool was developed to identify patients suspected of having Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C). The SI provides a risk prediction score (RPS) based on NP-C manifestations within and across domains (visceral, neurological, and psychiatric). The aim of these subanalyses was to further examine the discriminatory power of the SI by age and manifestation–associations by NP-C suspicion-level and leading manifestations. Methods The original retrospectively collected data were split into three patient age groups, where NP-C-positive cases were >16 years (n = 30), 4–16 years (n = 18), and 16 years) and 0.981 (4–16 years) but weaker 0.562 for infants (4 years, prominent leading manifestation–associations were ataxia with dystonia, dysarthria/dysphagia, and cognitive decline. Psychosis was associated with dysarthria/dysphagia but also with cognitive decline and treatment-resistant psychiatric symptoms. Conclusions The SI tool maintains strong discriminatory power in patients >4 years but is not as useful for infants
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