Two Cases of Leigh Syndrome in One Family : Diagnostic Challenges and Clinical Management Experience in Latvia
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2021
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Leigh syndrome is a neurodegenerative disorder with an incidence of 1: 40,000 live births. The clinical presentation of LS is highly variable with heterogeneity in the disease-associated symptoms of cerebellar, motor, and extrapyramidal dysfunction and common infections. There is no effective treatment for this condition; as such, the prognosis of this condition is very poor with death occurring within the first few years of life. In this study, we report the first LS case in Latvia with SURF1 pathogenic variants in two siblings. The difficulties encountered establishing a diagnosis for the first proband and the effective prenatal diagnosis for the second offspring that led to termination of the pregnancy are discussed.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Arta Katkevica et al.
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3.2 Clinical medicine, 3.1 Basic medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, General Medicine
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Katkevica, A, Kreile, M, Grinfelde, I, Taurina, G, Micule, I, Dzivite-Krisane, I, Smite-Laguna, A & Malniece, I 2021, 'Two Cases of Leigh Syndrome in One Family : Diagnostic Challenges and Clinical Management Experience in Latvia', Case Reports in Medicine, vol. 2021, 5266820. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5266820