title: Von Hippel-Lindau disease: gene to bedside.
abstract: Von Hippel-Lindau is an autosomal dominant familial tumor syndrome with a risk of developing central nervous system and retinal hemangioblastomas, kidney cysts and clear cell carcinoma, cyst adenomas of other organs and pheochromocytoma. Despite continued elaboration of the neurobiologic role of the von Hippel-Lindau protein, the mainstay of management remains the definitive clinical diagnosis of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (as distinct from sporadic cases of single von Hippel-Lindau-associated tumors), clinical monitoring and preemptive intervention by surgical or ablative therapy. Specific pharmacologic treatment awaits further biologic understanding of critical pathogenic components. Increasingly sensitive imaging and surgical techniques allow for optimum clinical management and intervention. This article will review von Hippel-Lindau molecular genetics, genotype-phenotype correlations and clinical classification, current understanding of the biology of the von Hippel-Lindau protein, its role in the pathophysiology of this disorder and the consequent implications for future therapeutic/interventional strategies. Central nervous system manifestations will be highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. sims@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Sims
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D005799:Genes, Dominant / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008025:Ligases / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D011379:Prognosis; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D051794:Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D051794:Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein; D008025:Ligases; C497446:VHL protein, human