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The Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease Research Foundation (APBDRF) is the only national non-profit health organization dedicated solely to finding the cause and cure for Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease (APBD). APBDRF strives to be the leading charitable funder and advocate of research worldwide

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Is your patient over 40? Is slow, progressive neurodegeneration occurring? Does your patient have:

What are Polyglucosan bodies? Glucose polymers that are diastase resistant. These aggregates are present within axons, beneath the sarcolemma, and between myofibrils The Genetics of APBD - Autosomal recessive - Many patients are of Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry - Half of patients have deficiency of glycogenbranching enzyme (GBE) - Common GBE mutation in Jewish patients Tyr329Ser - In other patients GBE is normal Current treatments - Supportive with symptomatic care - Bladder care with antispasmotic anticholnergic agents and self-catherization - Ambulation aids, wheelchair What Can Be Done - Educate neurologists, geneticist, urologist, physiatrists, psychiatrists and neuropsychologists to recognize APBD - Tell your patients about the APBD Research Foundation

Walking Difficulty? A peripheral neuropathy? A neurogenic bladder? Brain white matter changes?

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ADULT POLYGLUCOSAN BODY DISEASE COULD BE THE PROBLEM Can you diagnose this condition? Is there a treatment? Clinical Findings - Severe weakness, leg stiffness - Deterioration in gait, poor balance - Distal sensory loss in the lower limbs - Urinary dysfunction, incontinence - Sexual dysfunction, autonomic signs - Impairment in executive functions & cognition Laboratory Findings - EMG-Sensorimotor polyneuropathy with axonal loss - MRI-Cortical atrophy, cerebellar atrophy, diffuse

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For Testing Contact Dr. Orhan Akman at Columbia University Medical Center Physicians and Surgeons 630 West 168th StreetRoom 4-431, New York, NY 10032

212-305-1664 or 212-305-1663
About our LOGO: Our LOGO was designed by Dr. Orhan Akman and shows a highly branched normal glycogen molecule and - superimposed in red - a schematic view of the poorly branched polyglucosan structure.