Long-term prognosis of patients with infantile-onset Pompe disease diagnosed by newborn screening and treated since birth

YH Chien, NC Lee, CA Chen, FJ Tsai, WH Tsai… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the benefit of newborn screening for the long-term prognosis of
patients with classic infantile-onset Pompe disease (IOPD). Study design A cohort of patients …

Pompe disease in infants: improving the prognosis by newborn screening and early treatment

YH Chien, NC Lee, BL Thurberg, SC Chiang… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: Pompe disease causes progressive, debilitating, and often life-threatening
musculoskeletal, respiratory, and cardiac symptoms. Favorable outcomes with early …

A retrospective, multinational, multicenter study on the natural history of infantile-onset Pompe disease

PS Kishnani, WL Hwu, H Mandel, M Nicolino… - The Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the natural progression of infantile-onset Pompe disease.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart reviews of 168 patients with documented acid α …

A large‐scale nationwide newborn screening program for Pompe disease in Taiwan: Towards effective diagnosis and treatment

CF Yang, HC Liu, TR Hsu, FC Tsai… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to:(a) analyze the results of a large‐scale newborn screening
program for Pompe disease, and (b) establish an effective diagnostic protocol to obtain …

Later-onset Pompe disease: early detection and early treatment initiation enabled by newborn screening

YH Chien, NC Lee, HJ Huang, BL Thurberg… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether newborn screening facilitates early detection and
thereby early treatment initiation for later-onset Pompe disease. STUDY DESIGN: We have …

Very early treatment for infantile-onset Pompe disease contributes to better outcomes

CF Yang, CC Yang, HC Liao, LY Huang… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate whether very early treatment in our patients would result in better
clinical outcomes and to compare these data with other infantile-onset Pompe disease …

Infantile onset Pompe disease: a report of physician narratives from an epidemiologic study

D Marsden - Genetics in Medicine, 2005 - nature.com
Purpose: To review the narratives that detailed the most important features of Infantile Onset
Pompe disease (IOPD) from the physician's perspective, submitted as part of a large …

Rapid progressive course of later-onset Pompe disease in Chinese patients

CC Yang, YH Chien, NC Lee, SC Chiang… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Pompe disease presents with a wide variety of phenotypes ranging from a
fatal disease in infancy (the infantile-onset form) to other milder later-onset forms. Currently …

Pompe disease in infants and children

PS Kishnani, RR Howell - The Journal of pediatrics, 2004 - jpeds.com
Clinically, Pompe disease encompasses a range of phenotypes. Infantile-onset Pompe
disease is uniformly lethal. Affected infants present in the first few months of life with …

Effect of enzyme therapy in juvenile patients with Pompe disease: a three-year open-label study

CI Van Capelle, N van der Beek, MLC Hagemans… - Neuromuscular …, 2010 - Elsevier
Pompe disease is a rare neuromuscular disorder caused by deficiency of acid α-
glucosidase. Treatment with recombinant human α-glucosidase recently received marketing …