Peripheral and central hypomyelination with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and hypodontia
- 12 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 67 (11), 2066-2069
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000247666.28904.35
Abstract
We identified four unrelated patients (three female, one male) aged 20 to 30 years with hypomyelination, pituitary hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, and hypodontia. Electron microscopy and myelin protein immunohistochemistry of sural nerves showed granular debris-lined clefts, expanded abaxonal space, outpocketing with vacuolar disruption, and loss of normal myelin periodicity. Reduced galactocerebroside, sphingomyelin, and GM1-N-acetylglucosamine and increased esterified cholesterol were found. This is a clinically homogeneous progressive hypomyelinating disorder. The term 4H syndrome is suggested.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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