how to cite this article: mohammadi m. electrodiagnostic studies, “role in the diagnosis and follow-up in children with pompe disease”. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6:4 (suppl. 1):23. pls see pdf.

OBJECTIVE To investigate quality of life in an international population of patients with late-onset Pompe disease. METHODS Data on quality of life (SF-36), age, sex, disease duration, wheelchair use, and use of artificial ventilation were collected for 210 adults with Pompe disease from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. SF-36 scores were compared ...

The development of therapeutic clinical trials for glycogen storage disorders, including Pompe disease, has called for non-invasive and objective biomarkers. Glycogen accumulation can be measured in vivo with 13C MRS. However, clinical implementation remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise. On the other hand, the buildup of glycolytic intermediates may be detected with 31P MRS. We sought...

Infantile Pompe disease progresses to a lethal cardiomyopathy in absence of effective treatment. Enzyme-replacement therapy (ERT) with recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase (rhGAA) has been effective in most patients with Pompe disease, but efficacy was reduced by high-titer antibody responses. Immunomodulatory gene therapy with a low dose adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector (2 x 10(10) part...

We constructed a patient-based interval scale using Rasch analysis, specifically suited to quantify the effects of Pompe disease on patient's ability to carry out daily life activities and their social participation: Rasch-built Pompe-specific Activity scale. Between July 2005 and April 2011, 186 patients aged 16 or older, participated to develop this scale. External construct validity was dete...

BACKGROUND Pompe disease is a hereditary metabolic myopathy, for which enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) has been available since 2006. We investigated whether ERT reduces fatigue in adult patients with Pompe disease. METHODS In this prospective international observational survey, we used the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) to measure fatigue. Repeated measures ANOVA was used to analyze the data ...

By the end of June 2012 NOS News got hold of a concept advice to the Minister of Health. It proposed to stop the reimbursement of the orphan drugs Myozyme against Pompe’s disease and Fabryzyme and Replagal against Fabry’s disease. All three enzyme-therapies are very expensive. The treatment for Pompe-patients costs roughly between € 400.000 and € 700.000 a year, for Fabry-patients about € 220.0...

Pompe disease is an autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterized by progressive myopathy with proximal muscle weakness, respiratory muscle dysfunction, and cardiomyopathy (in infants only). In patients with juvenile or adult disease onset, respiratory muscle weakness may decline more rapidly than overall neurological disability. Sleep-disordered breathing, daytime hypercapnia, a...