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Filter by:This study aims to characterize dynamic stability disorders in two conditions mainly affecting the elderly and with similar walking deficits: hydrocephalus at normal pressure and Parkinson's disease, to provide the most relevant monitoring criteria in usual care.
Glucose transporter deficiency syndrome type 1 (GLUT1DS) is a rare, genetically determined, neurometabolic disorder . It is estimated that about 90% of affected patients present various pathological gait patterns. Ataxic, spastic, ataxo-spastic, or dystonic walking are the main manifestations described to date. The kinematic gait analysis with inertial sensors represents a method that is easily applicable in clinical practice, with possible application in numerous neurological syndromes of the pediatric and adult age. Through the kinematic gait analysis, it will be possible to obtain an accurate characterization of the gait of patients with GLUT1DS. This will allow, in the first place, a better knowledge of locomotor parameters in this rare cohort of patients. Given that kinematic analysis through a wearable sensor is a method that can be easily integrated into daily clinical practice, the data obtained could become prognostic biomarkers and significant outcome measures of the disease (also in relation to possible improvements deriving from treatment with a ketogenic diet or in the context of future pharmacological trials).
Cerebellar ataxias of late onset are of undetermined etiology in many cases. A new cause of late-onset cerebellar ataxia was discovered in January 2023 corresponding to an expansion of GAA triplets in intron 1 of the FGF14 gene. However, this cerebellar ataxia is still poorly known and requires further investigations to know its clinical phenotype and its evolution in order to propose a diagnosis and a genetic counseling adapted to patients and families. The objective of our study will be to describe the clinical and genotypic phenotype of patients with GAA-FGF14