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Chapter 24 - Vitamin-Responsive Disorders: Ataxia with Vitamin E Deficiency and Movement Disorders

from Section II - A Metabolism-Based Approach to Movement Disorders and Inherited Metabolic Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2020

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Krisztina K. Johansen  and
Jan O. Aasly
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Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari  and
Phillip L. Pearl
Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari
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Harvard Medical School
Phillip L. Pearl
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Summary

Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (AVED) was first described in 1981 by Burck et al. [1] as a progressive cerebellar ataxia in a 12-year-old boy with low vitamin E levels and without any alternative diagnosis.

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Movement Disorders and Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Recognition, Understanding, Improving Outcomes
 , pp. 307 - 313
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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