A New Look at PBD-ZSD Patients Living into Adulthood

A newly published article in the Journal of Metabolic Disease describes a “distinct subgroup within ZSDs [Zellweger Spectrum Disorders] who survive into adulthood” and “emphasizes that ZSDs should no longer be considered solely as a paediatric disease.”

Primary author Kevin Berendse, and his colleagues Drs. Bwee Pol-The and Dr. Ronald J. A. Wanders were in attendance at the recent International Peroxisome and Leukodystrophy Meeting in Omaha, NE, and met with many of our families and children there.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10545-015-9880-2/fulltext.html