The Advocacy for Neuroacanthocytosis Patients was established in 2002 to support patients and to fund research into therapies, diagnostics and ultimately, a ...

The genetics of neuroacanthocytosis are unclear and probably heterogeneous, but the available pedigree data and the association with the McLeod phenotype ...

Neuroacanthocytosis refers to a group of genetic disorders that give rise to movement disorders, neurological deficits and abnormally shaped red blood cells ...

Neuroacanthocytosis (NA) syndromes are a group of genetic diseases characterized by the association of red blood cell acanthocytosis (deformed erythrocytes with ...

Awareness of neuroacanthocytosis disorders has increased significantly in recent years. There have been a number of important developments in the field since ...

McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome (MLS) is a form of neuroacanthocytosis (see this term) and is characterized clinically by a Huntington's disease-like ...

Jan 11, 2021 · CONCLUSION. If used as an overarching term referring only to VPS13A disease and McLeod syndrome, “neuroacanthocytosis” might retain some utility ...

1). Acanthocytes are not normally present in peripheral blood. Their detection requires careful, sometimes repeated, examination of blood smears. They are ...

Epilepsy in chorea-acanthocytosis. Seizures are one of many neurological manifestations of chorea-acanthocytosis and occur in almost half of the patients.