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There have not been longitudinal studies which track patients' neurologically or developmentally in a systematic manner. By simultaneously tracking patients' neurodevelopment along with neuroimaging and neurophysiologic studies it becomes much easier to draw conclusions on the differential effects of the disease process and any available treatments that patients might receive. In addition, many of the gene mutations, which cause MLD have not been linked to the age of onset or the expected disease course.


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Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), an autosomal recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder, causes a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. This results in accumulation of sulfated glycolipids (sulphatide) within lysosomes of myelin forming cells in the central and peripheral nervous system and to a lesser extent in lysosomes of cells comprising the liver, kidneys, and gallbladder. The disease is characterized by progressive demyelination with wide variability in clinical onset and severity. Depending upon the age at onset and disease progression, MLD may be classified as late infantile (6 months to 4 years), early juvenile (4 to 6 years), late juvenile (6 to 16 years), and adult (>16 years). In the late infantile and early juvenile forms, blindness, gait disturbances, loss of speech, loss of hearing, and quadriparesis are common signs. In older children and adults the disease may present with gait disturbances, mental regression, and behavioral abnormalities. Disease progression, also variable, results in death within a few years to several decades; however, disease progression among affected siblings seems to follow a similar course, unlike many other leukodystrophies. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has been the only partially effective treatment reported for MLD. BMT has been shown to halt disease progression when asymptomatic patients achieve engraftment prior to the age at which symptoms occurred in an affected, symptomatic sibling. Despite stabilization of the clinical course when receiving BMT before symptoms, patients' neurophysiologic test abnormalities persist. The clinical implication of this finding has not been further researched. Patients who show mild to moderate progression of their disease prior to transplantation continue to exhibit disease progression to severe impairment. However, specific degrees of clinical impairment in neurodevelopmental function have not been monitored to determine what level of cognitive and motor impairment can be present and still allow the patient to confer benefits from treatment. Patients with late infantile MLD appear to benefit the least from the transplantation process based on preliminary unpublished data. Several case report studies for patients with late infantile MLD indicate delayed, but continued progression of the disease despite BMT, while others suggest initial deterioration followed by stabilization. Transplantation with allogenic hematopoietic stem cells has been shown to positively influence the disease progression of other lysosomal storage diseases such as Hurler Syndrome and Krabbe Disease and testing for enzyme replacement for MLD is already underway. For future researchers to be able compare the benefits of children with MLD who receive treatment to those who remained untreated, a better understanding of the natural progression of late infantile MLD is necessary. The current literature contains studies of individual or small groups of MLD patients that tracked intelligence quotients and neurophysiologic function, but did not correlate this with patients' neurodevelopment. A longitudinal study of a larger population of patients with late infantile MLD has yet to be performed. This protocol is a longitudinal observational study to capture natural history data in patients with late infantile MLD. This data will provide baseline neurobehavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological information that can in the future be used to evaluate treatment effects. ;


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NCT number NCT00639132
Study type Observational
Source University of Pittsburgh
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Status Withdrawn
Phase
Start date March 11, 2008
Completion date February 1, 2022

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