title: Atypical familial motor neuropathy in patients with mutant TTR Ile68Leu.
abstract: Two sisters from an Italian family shared progressive motor symptoms, preceding the onset of sensory and autonomic disturbances. The familial occurrence of axonal and slowly progressive polyneuropathy led us to consider these patients as candidates for TTR molecular analysis. We found a missense mutation causing Ile68Leu TTR substitution in both. The aims of this work are to report the possibility of a motor onset of amyloid polyneuropathy and to suggest the search for TTR mutations in familial cases of axonal polyneuropathy. Second, to stress the possible occurrence of amyloid within the spinal canal as the potential pathogenesis and responsible for motor presentation.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Ospedale Bellaria, Via Altura 3, 40139 Bologna, Italy. fabrizio.salvi@ausl.bo.it
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Salvi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scaglione
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Michelucci
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Linke
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Obici
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ravani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rimessi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferlini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meletti
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cavallaro
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Tassinari
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martinelli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D028227:Amyloid Neuropathies, Familial / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D010375:Pedigree; D017354:Point Mutation; D011228:Prealbumin / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D011228:Prealbumin