Medical Xpess - tuberous sclerosis

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Kidneys sometimes removed unnecessarily due to misdiagnosis of genetic disorder

Thousands of individuals have had kidneys removed unnecessarily because doctors misdiagnosed their disease.

Jan 10, 2013

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Cancer

Drug shrinks brain tumors in children with tuberous sclerosis complex

A drug originally developed to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs has now been shown to dramatically reduce a particular kind of brain tumor in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)—a genetic disease ...

Nov 13, 2012

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Autism spectrum disorders

Autism may involve disordered white matter in the brain

It's still unclear what's different in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but evidence from genetic and cell studies points to abnormalities in how brain cells (neurons) connect to each other. A study ...

Dec 05, 2011

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