Repurposing diflunisal for familial amyloid polyneuropathy: a randomized clinical trial

JL Berk, OB Suhr, L Obici, Y Sekijima, SR Zeldenrust… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a lethal genetic disease caused by
aggregation of variant transthyretin, induces progressive peripheral nerve deficits and …

Biallelic expansion of an intronic repeat in RFC1 is a common cause of late-onset ataxia

A Cortese, R Simone, R Sullivan, J Vandrovcova… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Late-onset ataxia is common, often idiopathic, and can result from cerebellar, proprioceptive,
or vestibular impairment; when in combination, it is also termed cerebellar ataxia …

Doxycycline plus tauroursodeoxycholic acid for transthyretin amyloidosis: a phase II study

L Obici, A Cortese, A Lozza, J Lucchetti, M Gobbi… - Amyloid, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We designed a phase II, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy, tolerability, safety, and
pharmacokinetics of orally doxycycline (100 mg BID) and tauroursodeoxycholic acid …

Autoantibodies to nodal isoforms of neurofascin in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

E Delmont, C Manso, L Querol, A Cortese… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Chronic inflammatory demyelination polyneuropathy is a heterogeneous and treatable
immune-mediated disorder that lacks biomarkers to support diagnosis. Recent evidence …

Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, vestibular areflexia syndrome due to RFC1 repeat expansion

A Cortese, S Tozza, WY Yau, S Rossi, SJ Beecroft… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ataxia, causing imbalance, dizziness and falls, is a leading cause of neurological disability.
We have recently identified a biallelic intronic AAGGG repeat expansion in replication factor …

Diagnosis and therapy of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and its variants

G Berzero, A Cortese, S Ravaglia… - Expert review of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is traditionally regarded as a monophasic
demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system occurring in children after infection or …

Antibodies to neurofascin, contactin-1, and contactin-associated protein 1 in CIDP: clinical relevance of IgG isotype

A Cortese, R Lombardi, C Briani… - Neurology …, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To assess the prevalence and isotypes of anti-nodal/paranodal antibodies to
nodal/paranodal proteins in a large chronic inflammatory demyelinating …

Biallelic mutations in SORD cause a common and potentially treatable hereditary neuropathy with implications for diabetes

A Cortese, Y Zhu, AP Rebelo, S Negri, S Courel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Here we report biallelic mutations in the sorbitol dehydrogenase gene (SORD) as the most
frequent recessive form of hereditary neuropathy. We identified 45 individuals from 38 …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic cough as a genetic neurological disorder? Insights from cerebellar ataxia with neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS)

RD Turner, B Hirons, A Cortese, SS Birring - Lung, 2023 - Springer
Chronic cough is common, and in many cases unexplained or refractory to otherwise
effective treatment of associated medical conditions. Cough hypersensitivity has developed …

Natural history, phenotypic spectrum, and discriminative features of multisystemic RFC1 disease

A Traschütz, A Cortese, S Reich, N Dominik, J Faber… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To delineate the full phenotypic spectrum, discriminative features, piloting
longitudinal progression data, and sample size calculations of replication factor complex …