Recessive cerebellar and afferent ataxias—clinical challenges and future directions

M Beaudin, M Manto, JD Schmahmann… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Cerebellar and afferent ataxias present with a characteristic gait disorder that reflects
cerebellar motor dysfunction and sensory loss. These disorders are a diagnostic challenge …

Conventional MRI findings in hereditary degenerative ataxias: a pictorial review

S Cocozza, G Pontillo, G De Michele, M Di Stasi… - Neuroradiology, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Cerebellar ataxias are a large and heterogeneous group of disorders. The
evaluation of brain parenchyma via MRI plays a central role in the diagnostic assessment of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms and therapeutics for spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

PA Egorova, IB Bezprozvanny - Neurotherapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
The effective therapeutic treatment and the disease-modifying therapy for spinocerebellar
ataxia type 2 (SCA2)(a progressive hereditary disease caused by an expansion of …

Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias with elevated alpha‐fetoprotein: uncommon diseases, common biomarker

M Renaud, C Tranchant, M Koenig… - Movement …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT alpha‐Fetoprotein (AFP) is a biomarker of several autosomal recessive
cerebellar ataxias (ARCAs), especially ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and ataxia with oculomotor …

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14: refining clinicogenetic diagnosis in a rare adult‐onset disorder

T Schmitz‐Hübsch, S Lux, P Bauer… - Annals of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Genetic variant classification is a challenge in rare adult‐onset disorders as in
SCA‐PRKCG (prior spinocerebellar ataxia type 14) with mostly private conventional …

The “crab sign”: an imaging feature of spinocerebellar ataxia type 48

S Cocozza, G Pontillo, G De Michele, T Perillo… - Neuroradiology, 2020 - Springer
Purpose A new form of autosomal dominant hereditary spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) has
been recently described (SCA48), and here we investigate its conventional MRI findings to …

Episodic ataxia and severe infantile phenotype in spinocerebellar ataxia type 14: expansion of the phenotype and novel mutations

G De Michele, D Galatolo, S Galosi, A Mignarri… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is a dominantly inherited neurological
disorder characterized by slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia. SCA14 is caused by …

Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias: a diagnostic classification approach according to ocular features

D Lopergolo, F Rosini, E Pretegiani… - Frontiers in Integrative …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias (ARCAs) are a heterogeneous group of
neurodegenerative disorders affecting primarily the cerebellum and/or its afferent tracts …

CHARON: An Imaging-Based Diagnostic Algorithm to Navigate Through the Sea of Hereditary Degenerative Ataxias

A Scaravilli, M Tranfa, G Pontillo, B Brais, G De Michele… - The Cerebellum, 2024 - Springer
The complexity in diagnosing hereditary degenerative ataxias lies not only in their rarity, but
also in the variety of different genetic conditions that can determine sometimes similar and …

Heterozygous deletion in exon 6 of STEX gene causing ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA-2) with ovarian failure

JS Kinkar, PZ Jameel, BL Kumawat… - BMJ Case Reports …, 2021 - casereports.bmj.com
Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2), recently renamed as ATX-SETX, is an
autosomal recessive, progressive neurodegenerative disorder belonging to inherited …