Adrenoleukodystrophy differential diagnosis
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Overview
Adrenoleukodystrophy must be differentiated from
Differential Diagnosis
Adrenoleukodystrophy must be differentiated from other diseases that cause neurological manifestations in infants.
Diseases | Type of motor abnormality | Clinical findings | Laboratory findings and diagnostic tests | Radiographic findings | |||
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Spasticity | Hypotonia | Ataxia | Dystonia | ||||
Leigh syndrome | - | - | + | + |
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Niemann-Pick disease type C | - | - | + | + |
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Infantile Refsum disease | - | + | + | - |
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Elevated plasma VLCFA levels | -- |
Adrenoleukodystrophy | + | - | - | - |
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-- |
Zellweger syndrome | - | + | - | - |
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-- |
Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency | + | + | + | - | -- | ||
Arginase deficiency | + | - | - | - | -- | ||
Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency | - | + | - | - | Elevated levels of:
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-- | |
Glutaric aciduria type 1 | - | - | - | + |
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Elevated levels of:
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Ataxia telangiectasia | - | - | + | - |
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-- |
Pontocerebellar hypoplasias | - | + | - | - |
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Genetic testing for PCH gene mutations |
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Metachromatic leukodystrophy | - | + | + | - |
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-- |
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher | + | - | + | - |
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Angelman syndrome | - | - | + | - |
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-- |
Rett syndrome | + | - | - | + |
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-- | |
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome | + | - | - | + |
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-- | |
Miller-Dieker lissencephaly | + | + | - | - |
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-- |
Dopa-responsive dystonia | + | - | - | + |
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-- |