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An unusual presentation of juvenile Alexander disease.

[alexander disease]

Alexander disease is a rare leukodystrophy that most often presents in infancy but also includes neonatal, juvenile, and adult variants. Juvenile Alexander disease presents primarily with bulbar symptoms between 2 and 12 years of age. The diagnosis is often suggested by the clinical course and brain magnetic resonance image pattern and then confirmed by the presence of a mutation in the glial fibrillary acidic protein gene. A young girl presented with globus sensation and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed abnormalities mainly involving white matter tracts of the medulla oblongata and cerebellum. The presence of a mutation in the glial fibrillary acidic protein gene confirmed the diagnosis of juvenile Alexander disease. A high index of clinical suspicion is necessary for the diagnosis of late-onset presentations of Alexander disease.

Diseases presenting "leukodystrophy" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • alexander disease
  • cadasil
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • classical phenylketonuria
  • coats disease
  • fabry disease
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • krabbe disease
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • phenylketonuria
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  • zellweger syndrome

This symptom has already been validated