原发性免疫缺陷病和脊髓性肌萎缩症临床特点及新生儿早期联合筛查实践

原发性免疫缺陷病(PID)及脊髓性肌萎缩症(SMA)均是由基因突变引起的能严重影响儿童健康甚至导致死亡的遗传性出生缺陷,早期发现和及时诊断治疗是影响预后的关键,新生儿筛查是目前实现早期诊断和干预的有效手段。近年来部分国家和地区已将SMA和PID中最为严重的重症联合免疫缺陷病(SCID)和最常见的B细胞缺乏症X连锁无丙种球蛋白血症(XLA)纳入新生儿筛查范围。浙江省在国内首次开展对SCID、XLA和SMA三种遗传性疾病的新生儿早期联合筛查实践,极大地提高了筛查效率,使出生缺陷三级预防关口前移,有助于显著改善患者的预后、提高生活质量、降低死亡率。     

One Week of Hospitalization Following Elective Hip Surgery Induces Substantial Muscle Atrophy in Older Patients

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Short successive periods of skeletal muscle disuse have been suggested to substantially contribute to the observed loss of skeletal muscle mass over the life span. Hospitalization of older individuals due to acute illness, injury, or major surgery generally results in a mean hospital stay of 5 to 7 days, during which the level of physical activity is strongly reduced. We hypothesized that hospitalization following elective total hip arthroplasty is accompanied by substantial leg muscle atrophy in older men and women.

New advances in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis genetics: Towards gene therapy opportunities for familial and young cases

Due to novel gene therapy opportunities, genetic screening is no longer restricted to familial cases of ALS (FALS) cases but also aplies to the sporadic populations (SALS). Screening of four main genes (C9orf72, SOD1, TARDBP and FUS) identified the causes in 15% of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients (two third of the familial cases and 8% of the sporadic ones) but their respective contribution to ALS phenotype varies according the age of disease onset. The genetic overlap between ALS and other diseases is expanding and includes frontotemporal dementia, Paget's Disease of Bone, myopathy for adult cases, HSP and CMT for young cases highlighing the importance of retrieving the exhaustive familial history for each indivdual with ALS. Incomplete disease penetrance, diversity of the possible phenotypes, as well as the lack of confidence concerning the pathogenicity of most identified variants and/or possible oligogenic inheritance are burdens of ALS genetic counseling to be delivered to patients and at risk individuals. The multitude of rare ALS genetic causes identifed seems to converge to similar cellular pathways leading to inapropriate response to stress emphacising new potential therapeutic options for the disease.     

Automated Computational Detection of Interstitial Fibrosis,Tubular Atrophy,and Glomerulosclerosis

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