TRAMACERE I.

Background and purpose: Data are reported from the Italian CMT Registry.Methods: The Italian CMT Registry is a dual registry where the patient registers and chooses a reference center where the attending clinician collects a minimal dataset of information and administers the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Examination/Neuropathy Score. Entered data...

Background: Four main clinical phenotypes have been traditionally described in patients mutated in SCN4A, including sodium-channel myotonia (SCM), paramyotonia congenita (PMC), Hypokaliemic type II (HypoPP2), and Hyperkaliemic/Normokaliemic periodic paralysis (HyperPP/NormoPP); in addition, rare phenotypes associated with mutations in SCN4A are...

Objective: Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease 4B1 and 4B2 (CMT4B1/B2) are characterized by recessive inheritance, early onset, severe course, slowed nerve conduction, and myelin outfoldings. CMT4B3 shows a more heterogeneous phenotype. All are associated with myotubularin-related protein (MTMR) mutations. We conducted a multicenter,...