Autism Among the Amish Oct 10, 2009
Common ailments among the Amish include Maple Syrup Urine Disease and Crigler-Najjar Syndrome. These disorders are found very rarely found in the general population. (Suite101.com)
Hypertension And Diabetes Are Concern In Long-Term Care Of Liver Transplant Patients Oct 7, 2009
10, 2006) Liver transplants cured the metabolic symptoms of 11 patients with a rare but devastating genetic condition known as Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD), according to a study by researchers from. . (Science Daily)
Life sciences company raises $5M investment Sep 9, 2009
The procedure is saving two lives and curing one rare disease (Maple Syrup Urine Disease) in a 24-year-old patient, and improving the quality of life in the other patient, who has suffered a lifetime battle with hemophilia, and more recently hepatitis C.. Domino liver transplant procedures are named for the sequential, one-after-the-other nature of the process in which a viable liver from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient, and the first recipient s organ is then... (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Missouri votes to add 5 diseases to newborn screenings May 11, 2009
Hospitals take blood samples from newborns and pay 50 per sample to the state health to check for dozens of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell and maple syrup urine disease a metabolic disorder that can be fatal or cause mental retardation and physical disabilities. Missouri lawmakers voted to add to the newborn screening list: Krabbe, Pompe, Gaucher, Niemann-Pick and Fabry, which are among the roughly 50 lysosomal storage diseases. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Domino liver transplant saves lives of two kids Feb 22, 2009
Chairman of the hospital, B K Rao, claimed with the transplants, Shourya is India's first and the world's youngest recipient of a living donor liver transplant for Maple Syrup Urine Disease, and Siya the country's first and the world's youngest recipient of a domino liver transplant ... "Maple Syrup Urine Disease is caused by a lack of an enzyme in the body, a patient with the disease who receives a liver transplant is able to make enough of the enzyme in the new liver to compensate the shortage... (Hindu)
Delhi: Rare liver surgeries on kids Feb 20, 2009
While 22-month-old Shourya was cured of Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) -- a highly rare inherited metabolic disorder that causes mental retardation and death -- by a transplant performed using 20% of his aunt's liver, his own liver was, in turn, transplanted into three-year-old Siya, who was battling end-stage liver failure due to another rare condition called Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH). The surgeries were conducted on January 31. (India Times, India)
