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Vitamin E deficiency in Werdnig‐Hoffmann disease

Author(s) -

Shapira Yehuda,

Amit Rami,

Rachmilewitz Eliezer

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

annals of neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764

H-Index - 296

eISSN - 1531-8249

pISSN - 0364-5134

DOI - 10.1002/ana.410100312

Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin e deficiency , disease , vitamin e , pathology , biology , biochemistry , antioxidant

Vitamin E levels were measured in the plasma of infants and children with various neuromuscular disorders. Seven of 8 infants with Werdnig‐Hoffmann disease (WHD) had a singificantly lower plasma vitmin E level ( p < 0.01) than age‐matched normal controls, children with congenital myopathies, or children with muscular dystrophy. Vitamin E deficiency in WHD is not caused by malabsorption. A therapeutic trial of vtamin course of the disease. Vitamin E deficiency may play a role in the pathologenesis of WHD.

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