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Psychosis in an adolescent girl: a common manifestation in Niemann-Pick Type C disease

Overview of attention for article published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, July 2014
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Title
Psychosis in an adolescent girl: a common manifestation in Niemann-Pick Type C disease
Published in
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1753-2000-8-20
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Sara Wouters, Linda De Meirleir, Edward Campforts, Annik Lampo

Abstract

Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare autosomal-recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder. It is caused by mutations in the NPC1 (95%) or NPC2 gene. It is a progressive and highly heterogeneous disease, characterized by the presentation of visceral, neurological, and psychiatric symptoms. Apart from the patients that die early from organic failure, most of the patients with juvenile and adolescent/adult onset of the disease, develop neurological and psychiatric symptoms. In some cases psychiatric signs, mostly psychosis, can be the first sign of the disease. A delay in diagnosis is often seen. By describing the case of a 16-year old girl, we would like to highlight current opinion about NP-C disease and resume recent findings on the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. We focus on the psychiatric signs, and most important the specific combinations that are typical for the disease. There is no curative treatment for NP-C. Miglustat is used to modify neurological signs in NP-C.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 5 19%
Researcher 3 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Master 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Other 7 26%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 37%
Psychology 4 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 5 19%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2015.
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#16,046,765
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#537
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#130,550
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#5
of 7 outputs
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