Current Neurobiology
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1and2

Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere Syndrome-report of three cases

  • Author:
  • Adel A H Mahmoud1,, Tamer Rizk2, Abdul Aziz AlSaman1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 9 to 12

1Department of Pediatric Neurology, Neurosciences Centre, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2Al-Takhassussi Hospital, Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

*Correspondence to: Adel A H Mahmoud, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Neurosciences Centre, King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Online published on 14 November, 2013.

Abstract

Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome is a rare disease with progressive ponto-bulbar palsy and sensorineural deafness first described in 1894. There is only one earlier case report from Saudi Arabia. Here we report three cases with literature review.

Keywords

Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome, Autosomal recessive inheritance, Hearing impairment, Hypotonia