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ArticleClinical medicine insights. Pediatrics2025

Expanding the Epidemiological and Phenotypic Spectrum of MEGDEL Syndrome: The First Case Report From Egypt.

Abdelrahim A Sadek, Mohammed A Aladawy, Tarek Mm Mansour, Mohammed Fawzy Fouad, Rofaida M Magdy, Mohamed Mohamed Elmoursy, Elsayed Abdelkreem

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Abdelrahim A SadekNeuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
Mohammed A AladawyNeurology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.
Tarek Mm MansourDepartment of Radio-Diagnosis, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.
Mohammed Fawzy FouadNeurology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.
Rofaida M MagdyNeuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
Mohamed Mohamed ElmoursyAudio-vestibular Medicine Unit, Department of ENT, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0883-3018
Elsayed AbdelkreemDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-2989

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Abstract

MEGDEL syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, deafness-dystonia, hepatopathy, encephalopathy, and leigh-like syndrome, which results from biallelic pathogenic variants in

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3-methylglutaconic aciduriaEgyptMEGDEL syndromeSERAC1variant

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PMID40821445
PMCPMC12354997

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