Neurocognitive functioning in school-aged cystinosis patients
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Neurocognitive Complications of Cystinosis.
Until effective treatments for the renal complications of nephropathic cystinosis became available, cystinosis was not thought to affect the brain. Any neurologic problems reported in patients with cystinosis were attributed to the chronic renal disease and associated metabolic derangements, or to treatments such as steroids and other immunosuppressant agents. Since the successful advent of ren...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0141-8955,1573-2665
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-010-9182-7