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What does leukodystrophy mean?

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  1. (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
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Kabbara's breakthrough is a treatment for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy which is a genetic disorder that affects nerves, muscles and other organs.
Myelin-associated glycoprotein is altered in a familial late-onset orthochromatic leukodystrophy.
In the second trial, Naldini and his colleagues treated three children with a metabolic disease called metachromatic leukodystrophy.
Case 2 involved a 3-year-old boy who received a mismatched unrelated bone marrow transplant for metachromatic leukodystrophy.
The classic leukodystrophies include adrenoleukodystrophy, Krabbe's globoid cell, and metachromatic leukodystrophy, and a few other less well known entities.

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