Mitochondrial disease and hearing loss in children: A systematic review

S Roesch, A O'Sullivan, G Zimmermann… - The …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Hearing loss is a clinical symptom, frequently mentioned in the context of
mitochondrial disease. With no cure available for mitochondrial disease, supportive …

Visual electrophysiology in the assessment of toxicity and deficiency states affecting the visual system

EK O'Neill, R Smith - Eye, 2021 - nature.com
Visual disturbance or visual failure due to toxicity of an ingested substance or a severe
nutritional deficiency can present significant challenges for diagnosis and management, for …

Cochlear implantation outcomes in patients with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder of genetic and non-genetic etiologies: a multicenter study

PH Lin, HP Wu, CM Wu, YT Chiang, JS Hsu, CY Tsai… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
With diverse etiologies and clinical features, the management of pediatric auditory
neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is often challenging, and the outcomes of cochlear …

The human OPA1delTTAG mutation induces adult onset and progressive auditory neuropathy in mice

C Affortit, C Coyat, AR Saidia, JC Ceccato… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most prevalent forms of hereditary optic
neuropathies and is mainly caused by heterozygous variants in OPA1, encoding a …

Establishing induced pluripotent stem cell lines from two dominant optic atrophy patients with distinct OPA1 mutations and clinical pathologies

KA Pohl, X Zhang, AH Pham, JW Chan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is an inherited disease that leads to the loss of retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs), the projection neurons that relay visual information from the retina to …

Evaluation of a Less Invasive Cochlear Implant Surgery in OPA1 Mutations Provoking Deafblindness

AM Tekin, H Baelen, E Heuninck, YA Bayazıt… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cochlear implantation (CI) for deafblindness may have more impact than for non-syndromic
hearing loss. Deafblind patients have a double handicap in a society that is more and more …

A novel stop-gain NF1 variant in neurofibromatosis type 1 and bilateral optic atrophy without optic gliomas

N Fukunaga, T Hayashi, Y Yamada… - Ophthalmic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a multisystem disorder that
primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system and is caused by chromosomal …

RP2‐associated retinal disorder in a Japanese cohort: Report of novel variants and a literature review, identifying a genotype–phenotype association

K Fujinami, X Liu, S Ueno, A Mizota… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The retinitis pigmentosa 2 (RP2) gene is one of the causative genes for X‐linked
inherited retinal disorder. We characterized the clinical/genetic features of four patients with …

Genetic neuropathy due to impairments in mitochondrial dynamics

G Sharma, G Pfeffer, TE Shutt - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Mitochondria are organelles within our cells that are best known for their
role in energy production. They are also able to fuse, divide, and move within the cell …

Genetic spectrum and characteristics of hereditary optic neuropathy in Taiwan

CW Lin, CW Huang, AC Luo, YT Chou, YS Huang… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hereditary optic neuropathy (HON) is a group of genetically heterogeneous diseases that
cause optic nerve atrophy and lead to substantial visual impairment. HON may present with …