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 3rd Alström Syndrome International Scientific Congress

Padua, Italy
March 7-8, 2003
 Organizing and Scientific Committees

University of Padua
www.unipd.it
 

PROGRAM ABSTRACTS  

• Towards understanding the molecular basis of Alström syndrome
  Gayle B. Collin, Bar Harbor, Maine
• Mutation of ALMS1, a large gene with a tandem repeat of 47 amino acids, causes Alström syndrome
  David I. Wilson, Ph.D., Southampton, UK
• Development and Behavior in Children with Alstrom Syndrome
  Sarah E. Shea. MD,  Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Alström syndrome as a model of metabolic syndrome of putative central nervous system origin
  Roberto Vettor, MD, Padua, Italy
• High versus low carbohydrate meal effects on serum triglyceride and blood glucose levels in 5 patients with Alström Syndrome
  Richard B. Paisey, MD, Torbay, UK
• Pituitary function and IGF system in Alström Syndrome
  Pietro Maffei, MD, Padua, Italy
• Research in Alström Syndrome: history and future directions
  Jan D. Marshall, Bar Harbor, Maine
• Pathology of Five Alström Patients
  Roderick T. Bronson, Ph.D., Boston, Massachusetts
• Hepatic Dysfunction in Alstrom Syndrome
  Judy Davis, MD, Fresno, California
• Alström's Syndrome and the Heart
  Cathy Carey, MD, Torbay, UK
• Renal & Urology
  Seamus MacDermott, MD, Torbay UK
• Ophthalmic Manifestations of the Alström Syndrome
  Isabelle Russell-Eggitt, MD, London, UK
• Hearing and balance function in Alström syndrome
  Claes Möller, Gothenberg, Sweden
• Rare Diseases and the Italian Public Health System
  Domenica Taruscio, MD, Rome Italy
• Case Report from Romaina
  Cristina Maria Mihai, MD, Constanta, Romania
• A Case of Late Diagnosis of Alström Syndrome
  Sebastian Beck, MD, Oporto, Portugal
• Alström Syndrome Patient with Liver Cirrhosis (Complicated with Portal Hypertension), His Management and Fetal Cell Transplantation
  Gocha Shatirishvili, MD  Tbilisi, Georgia
• Report of Five Italian Alström Patients
  V. Munno, MD and M. Imi, MD, Padua, Italy
• Report of Three Cases of Alström Syndrome in a North African Family
  Charles Oliver, MD, Marseille, France
• Successfull  kidney transplantation  in a case of Alström Syndrome
  M.G. Porcellini, MD, Milan, Italy
• Alström syndrome in two affected sibs: the importance of a precocious diagnosis
  G.B. Pozzan, MD, Padua, Italy
• Case Report
  Debbie Hodge, R.N., Torbay, UK