Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Papers
(The median citation count of Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global epidemiology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis191
Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome: a comprehensive update102
PKU dietary handbook to accompany PKU guidelines98
The use of machine learning in rare diseases: a scoping review90
A roadmap to using historical controls in clinical trials – by Drug Information Association Adaptive Design Scientific Working Group (DIA-ADSWG)82
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Germany: clinical results after 2 years79
Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies68
Guidelines for diagnosis and management of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome66
A review of mechanisms of disease across PIK3CA-related disorders with vascular manifestations62
ERNICA guidelines for the management of rectosigmoid Hirschsprung’s disease61
Effects of nusinersen after one year of treatment in 123 children with SMA type 1 or 2: a French real-life observational study59
Clinical features of genetically characterized types of hereditary angioedema with normal C1 inhibitor: a systematic review of qualitative evidence58
Motor function in type 2 and 3 SMA patients treated with Nusinersen: a critical review and meta-analysis57
Natural history of lung function in spinal muscular atrophy54
Systematic literature review of the economic burden of spinal muscular atrophy and economic evaluations of treatments53
Treatable inherited metabolic disorders causing intellectual disability: 2021 review and digital app51
Treatment outcomes following continuous miglustat therapy in patients with Niemann-Pick disease Type C: a final report of the NPC Registry51
Model organisms contribute to diagnosis and discovery in the undiagnosed diseases network: current state and a future vision48
Diagnosis support systems for rare diseases: a scoping review47
Consensus clinical management guidelines for Alström syndrome46
The clinical course of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the corticosteroid treatment era: a systematic literature review44
Longitudinal natural history of type I spinal muscular atrophy: a critical review44
The impact of COVID-19 on rare metabolic patients and healthcare providers: results from two MetabERN surveys42
Clinical experience with the AKT1 inhibitor miransertib in two children with PIK3CA-related overgrowth syndrome41
The national economic burden of rare disease in the United States in 201939
Standard of care versus new-wave corticosteroids in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Can we do better?39
French recommendations for the management of systemic necrotizing vasculitides (polyarteritis nodosa and ANCA-associated vasculitides)39
Using four decades of FDA orphan drug designations to describe trends in rare disease drug development: substantial growth seen in development of drugs for rare oncologic, neurologic, and pediatric-on38
French recommendations for the management of systemic sclerosis37
Cybernic treatment with wearable cyborg Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) improves ambulatory function in patients with slowly progressive rare neuromuscular diseases: a multicentre, randomised, controlled 36
A systematic literature review of the disease burden in patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa35
Improved inflammatory bowel disease, wound healing and normal oxidative burst under treatment with empagliflozin in glycogen storage disease type Ib33
A phase II, open-label, extension study of long-term patisiran treatment in patients with hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) amyloidosis33
Phelan-McDermid syndrome: a classification system after 30 years of experience32
Health, wellbeing and lived experiences of adults with SMA: a scoping systematic review31
Epidemiology of mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) in United States: challenges and opportunities31
Are rare diseases overlooked by medical education? Awareness of rare diseases among physicians in Poland: an explanatory study31
Calcium channelopathies and intellectual disability: a systematic review30
The IDeaS initiative: pilot study to assess the impact of rare diseases on patients and healthcare systems30
Clinical features, treatment, and survival outcome of primary pulmonary NUT midline carcinoma29
Current HHT genetic overview in Spain and its phenotypic correlation: data from RiHHTa registry29
Natural history of Lafora disease: a prognostic systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis28
Non-deletional alpha thalassaemia: a review28
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: genetics, gene activation and downstream signalling with regard to recent therapeutic approaches: an update28
European Reference Network for Rare Vascular Diseases (VASCERN) position statement on cerebral screening in adults and children with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)27
Quality of life data for individuals affected by spinal muscular atrophy: a baseline dataset from the Cure SMA Community Update Survey27
Clinical characteristics and burden of illness in patients with hereditary angioedema: findings from a multinational patient survey27
Why is misdiagnosis more likely among some people with rare diseases than others? Insights from a population-based cross-sectional study in China27
Prevalence of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) in the United States: estimate from three treatment centers and a patient organization27
Are supplemental appraisal/reimbursement processes needed for rare disease treatments? An international comparison of country approaches26
The French national protocol for Kennedy’s disease (SBMA): consensus diagnostic and management recommendations26
Clinical and molecular basis of hepatocerebral mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome in Japan: evaluation of outcomes after liver transplantation26
Supportive care needs of patients with rare chronic diseases: multi-method, cross-sectional study26
The European Rare Kidney Disease Registry (ERKReg): objectives, design and initial results26
Rare disease awareness and perspectives of physicians in China: a questionnaire-based study25
The diffuse-type tenosynovial giant cell tumor (dt-TGCT) patient journey: a prospective multicenter study25
Onset features and time to diagnosis in Friedreich’s Ataxia25
Long term disease burden post-transplantation: three decades of observations in 25 Hurler patients successfully treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)25
A 29 Mainland Chinese cohort of patients with Phelan–McDermid syndrome: genotype–phenotype correlations and the role of SHANK3 haploinsufficiency in the important phenotypes25
Potential clinical utility of MUC5B und TOLLIP single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the management of patients with IPF25
French recommendations for the management of Behçet’s disease25
The Glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis pathway in human diseases24
Non-hotspot PIK3CA mutations are more frequent in CLOVES than in common or combined lymphatic malformations24
TRUST4RD: tool for reducing uncertainties in the evidence generation for specialised treatments for rare diseases24
Initial predictors for short-term prognosis in anti-melanoma differentiation-associated protein-5 positive patients24
Expert opinion on monitoring symptomatic hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis and assessment of disease progression24
A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of PXT3003 for the treatment of Charcot–Marie–Tooth type 1A24
The genetic landscape of crystallins in congenital cataract24
The impact of FDA and EMA regulatory decision-making process on the access to CFTR modulators for the treatment of cystic fibrosis23
A comprehensive review of hydroxyurea for β-haemoglobinopathies: the role revisited during COVID-19 pandemic23
Needs assessment study of rare diseases education for nurses and nursing students in Poland23
Prospective study of the natural history of chronic acid sphingomyelinase deficiency in children and adults: eleven years of observation23
Data from the European registry for patients with McArdle disease and other muscle glycogenoses (EUROMAC)23
Pediatric hypophosphatasia: lessons learned from a retrospective single-center chart review of 50 children23
Consensuses and controversies on pseudomyxoma peritonei: a review of the published consensus statements and guidelines23
RPE65-associated inherited retinal diseases: consensus recommendations for eligibility to gene therapy23
Genetic testing and diagnosis of inherited retinal diseases23
Perfect match: mTOR inhibitors and tuberous sclerosis complex23
How are patients with rare diseases and their carers in the UK impacted by the way care is coordinated? An exploratory qualitative interview study23
Telemedicine strategy of the European Reference Network ITHACA for the diagnosis and management of patients with rare developmental disorders23
PhenoDB, GeneMatcher and VariantMatcher, tools for analysis and sharing of sequence data23
The need for widely available genomic testing in rare eye diseases: an ERN-EYE position statement23
Ketogenic diet for mitochondrial disease: a systematic review on efficacy and safety22
Understanding the role of SGLT2 inhibitors in glycogen storage disease type Ib: the experience of one UK centre22
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency: updating the clinical, metabolic and mutational landscapes in a cohort of Portuguese patients22
Observation of the natural course of type 3 spinal muscular atrophy: data from the polish registry of spinal muscular atrophy22
Improvements needed to support people living and working with a rare disease in Northern Ireland: current rare disease support perceived as inadequate22
Diagnosis of Rare Diseases: a scoping review of clinical decision support systems22
Unusual sites of bone involvement in Langerhans cell histiocytosis: a systematic review of the literature22
Adult-onset CblC deficiency: a challenging diagnosis involving different adult clinical specialists22
Health impact of acute intermittent porphyria in latent and non-recurrent attacks patients21
Fatigability in spinal muscular atrophy: validity and reliability of endurance shuttle tests21
Recommendations for pre-symptomatic genetic testing for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in the era of effective therapy: a multicenter Italian consensus21
A scoping review and proposed workflow for multi-omic rare disease research21
Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma: a case series and literature review21
The diagnostic odyssey: insights from parents of children living with an undiagnosed condition21
Understanding acute metabolic decompensation in propionic and methylmalonic acidemias: a deep metabolic phenotyping approach21
Costs of illness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a cross-sectional survey in Germany21
Abdominal fat pad biopsies exhibit good diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected transthyretin amyloidosis21
High prevalence of symptomatic spinal stenosis in Norwegian adults with achondroplasia: a population-based study21
Healthcare access, satisfaction, and health-related quality of life among children and adults with rare diseases20
Clinical and genetic profile of patients enrolled in the Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey (THAOS): 14-year update20
Clinical, biochemical and molecular phenotype of congenital disorders of glycosylation: long-term follow-up20
A guide to writing systematic reviews of rare disease treatments to generate FAIR-compliant datasets: building a Treatabolome20
Musculo-skeletal phenotype of Costello syndrome and cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome: insights on the functional assessment status20
Cyclin-dependent kinases and rare developmental disorders20
A thematic study: impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rare disease organisations and patients across ten jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region20
Dried blood spot versus venous blood sampling for phenylalanine and tyrosine20
Nintedanib in idiopathic and secondary pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis20
Diagnostic yield of next-generation sequencing in 87 families with neurodevelopmental disorders20
Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of disease progression to inform clinical trial design in centronuclear myopathy20
Publication of data collection forms from NHLBI funded sickle cell disease implementation consortium (SCDIC) registry20
Diagnostic delays in vasculitis and factors associated with time to diagnosis19
Growth patterns in children with spinal muscular atrophy19
Epidemiological investigation of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in China19
A brief history of MECP2 duplication syndrome: 20-years of clinical understanding19
Effects of iron chelation therapy on the clinical course of aceruloplasminemia: an analysis of aggregated case reports19
French recommendations for the management of Takayasu’s arteritis19
A systematic literature review of frequency of vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell disease19
Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) in Belgium: clinical characteristics and outcome measures19
To what degree are orphan drugs patient-centered? A review of the current state of clinical research in rare diseases19
Randomized controlled phase 2 trial of hydroxychloroquine in childhood interstitial lung disease18
Development of a standard of care for patients with valosin-containing protein associated multisystem proteinopathy18
A standard set of outcome measures for the comprehensive assessment of osteogenesis imperfecta18
Novel computer aided diagnostic models on multimodality medical images to differentiate well differentiated liposarcomas from lipomas approached by deep learning methods18
The effect of improved dietary control on cognitive and psychiatric functioning in adults with phenylketonuria: the ReDAPT study18
Multisystemic manifestations in a cohort of 75 classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patients: natural history and nosological perspectives18
Congenital hyperinsulinism in infancy and childhood: challenges, unmet needs and the perspective of patients and families18
Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease overview18
Increasing African genomic data generation and sharing to resolve rare and undiagnosed diseases in Africa: a call-to-action by the H3Africa rare diseases working group18
Navigating the U.S. health insurance landscape for children with rare diseases: a qualitative study of parents’ experiences18
Application of a next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel in newborn screening efficiently identifies inborn disorders of neonates18
The experiences of people with haemophilia and their families of gene therapy in a clinical trial setting: regaining control, the Exigency study18
Global epidemiology of amyloid light-chain amyloidosis18
Enzyme replacement therapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplant: a new paradigm of treatment in Wolman disease18
Protein signature of human skin fibroblasts allows the study of the molecular etiology of rare neurological diseases17
Development and validation of the prognostic value of ferritin in adult patients with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis17
Assessing rare diseases prevalence using literature quantification17
A systematic review of moral reasons on orphan drug reimbursement17
Analyzing clinical and genetic characteristics of a cohort with multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome (MCAHS)17
Long-term survival with sebelipase alfa enzyme replacement therapy in infants with rapidly progressive lysosomal acid lipase deficiency: final results from 2 open-label studies17
Optimising the mutation screening strategy in Marfan syndrome and identifying genotypes with more severe aortic involvement17
New developments in the molecular treatment of ichthyosis: review of the literature17
Parent–child-agreement on health-related quality of life and its determinants in patients born with Esophageal Atresia: a Swedish–German cross-sectional study17
Implementation of second-tier tests in newborn screening for the detection of vitamin B12 related acquired and genetic disorders: results on 258,637 newborns17
Diagnosis of hepatic glycogen storage disease patients with overlapping clinical symptoms by massively parallel sequencing: a systematic review of literature16
Preclinical model systems of ryanodine receptor 1-related myopathies and malignant hyperthermia: a comprehensive scoping review of works published 1990–201916
Survival and diagnostic age of 175 Taiwanese patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (1985–2019)16
Pilot trial on the efficacy and safety of pantethine in children with pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration: a single-arm, open-label study16
Validation of the 5-domain Niemann-Pick type C Clinical Severity Scale16
Improving early diagnosis of rare diseases using Natural Language Processing in unstructured medical records: an illustration from Dravet syndrome16
Short-term safety results from compassionate use of risdiplam in patients with spinal muscular atrophy in Germany16
Parents as informal caregivers of children and adolescents with spinal muscular atrophy: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative data on the psychosocial situation, caregiver burden, and f16
Providing high-quality care remotely to patients with rare bone diseases during COVID-19 pandemic16
Primary lymphedema French National Diagnosis and Care Protocol (PNDS; Protocole National de Diagnostic et de Soins)16
A systematic overview of rare disease patient registries: challenges in design, quality management, and maintenance16
Consensus based recommendations for diagnosis and medical management of Poland syndrome (sequence)16
Patient and family experience with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) amyloidosis: results of two focus groups16
Dissecting the role of EYS in retinal degeneration: clinical and molecular aspects and its implications for future therapy16
Correlation of retinal and choroidal microvascular impairment in systemic sclerosis16
Detection of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: the past, present and future16
Increased risk of internal tumors in DNA repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum patients: analysis of four international cohorts16
What role can decentralized trial designs play to improve rare disease studies?16
The international X-linked hypophosphataemia (XLH) registry (NCT03193476): rationale for and description of an international, observational study16
Pearson syndrome: a multisystem mitochondrial disease with bone marrow failure15
RDmap: a map for exploring rare diseases15
Identification of two novel bullous pemphigoid- associated alleles, HLA-DQA1*05:05 and -DRB1*07:01, in Germans15
Sirolimus in the treatment of kaposiform lymphangiomatosis15
Guidelines on the diagnosis, clinical assessments, treatment and management for CLN2 disease patients15
The first European consensus on principles of management for achondroplasia15
Lung function in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: a retrospective analysis of 96 patients15
Clinical profiles and risk factors of 7-day and 30-day mortality among 160 pediatric patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis15
Systematic estimation of cystic fibrosis prevalence in Chinese and genetic spectrum comparison to Caucasians15
Rare manifestations and malignancies in tuberous sclerosis complex: findings from the TuberOus SClerosis registry to increAse disease awareness (TOSCA)15
Dalfampridine in the treatment of multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials15
Recommendations from the IRDiRC Working Group on methodologies to assess the impact of diagnoses and therapies on rare disease patients15
Multi-level consistent changes of the ECM pathway identified in a typical keratoconus twin’s family by multi-omics analysis15
Exome sequencing in paediatric patients with movement disorders15
Reproductive options for families at risk of Osteogenesis Imperfecta: a review15
Natural history of non-lethal Raine syndrome during childhood15
Gender differences in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia severity15
Hepatobiliary disease in XLMTM: a common comorbidity with potential impact on treatment strategies15
Design, development and deployment of a web-based interoperable registry for inherited retinal dystrophies in Portugal: the IRD-PT15
Clinical, imaging, biochemical and molecular features in Leigh syndrome: a study from the Italian network of mitochondrial diseases15
Study on clinical and biological characteristics of ameloblastic carcinoma15
Quality of life of children with spinal muscular atrophy and their caregivers from the perspective of caregivers: a Chinese cross-sectional study15
Exercise training alone or in combination with high-protein diet in patients with late onset Pompe disease: results of a cross over study15
Three years of growth hormone treatment in young adults with Prader-Willi syndrome: sustained positive effects on body composition15
Genotype characterization and delayed loss of ambulation by glucocorticoids in a large cohort of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy15
Registries for orphan drugs: generating evidence or marketing tools?15
Phenotypic and genetic spectrum of isolated macrodactyly: somatic mosaicism of PIK3CA and AKT1 oncogenic variants15
Treatment preference among patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA): a discrete choice experiment15
Genotype characteristics and immunological indicator evaluation of 311 hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis cases in China14
Direct and indirect costs and cost-driving factors in adults with tuberous sclerosis complex: a multicenter cohort study and a review of the literature14
Childhood Langerhans cell histiocytosis with severe lung involvement: a nationwide cohort study14
Epidemiology and burden of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: a systematic review14
Identification of risk features for complication in Gaucher’s disease patients: a machine learning analysis of the Spanish registry of Gaucher disease14
Phenotypic characterization of X-linked hypophosphatemia in pediatric Spanish population14
U-IMD: the first Unified European registry for inherited metabolic diseases14
Optimizing language for effective communication of gene therapy concepts with hemophilia patients: a qualitative study14
Natural history of Krabbe disease – a nationwide study in Germany using clinical and MRI data14
Specific populations of urinary extracellular vesicles and proteins differentiate type 1 primary hyperoxaluria patients without and with nephrocalcinosis or kidney stones14
Combined surgery with 3-in-1 osteosynthesis in congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia with intact fibula14
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on neurofibromatosis clinical care and research14
Increased phototoxic burn tolerance time and quality of life in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria treated with afamelanotide – a three years observational study14
The impact of severe rare chronic neurological disease in childhood on the quality of life of families—a study on MLD and PCH214
Management of ocular involvement in the acute phase of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: french national audit of practices, literature review, and consensus agreement14
Clinical disease characteristics of patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: findings from the International Niemann-Pick Disease Registry (INPDR)14
The adult phenotype of Schaaf-Yang syndrome14
Cost-of-illness studies in rare diseases: a scoping review14
Common needs in uncommon conditions: a qualitative study to explore the need for care in pediatric patients with rare diseases14
Long-term experience with triheptanoin in 12 Austrian patients with long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders14
Evaluation of the long-term treatment effects of intravenous idursulfase in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II) using statistical modeling: data from the Hunter Outcome Survey (HOS)14
Health-related quality of life in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis polyneuropathy: a prospective, observational study14
Data silos are undermining drug development and failing rare disease patients14
Clinical profiles of treated and untreated adults with hypophosphatasia in the Global HPP Registry14
Evaluation of the parents’ anxiety levels before and after the diagnosis of their child with a rare genetic disease: the necessity of psychological support14
Quality of life outcomes in two phase 3 trials of setmelanotide in patients with obesity due to LEPR or POMC deficiency14
Revesz syndrome revisited13
National Rare Diseases Registry System (NRDRS): China’s first nation-wide rare diseases demographic analyses13
Dietary mannose supplementation in phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency (PMM2-CDG)13
Rare disease education in Europe and beyond: time to act13
Towards enhanced understanding of idiopathic ketotic hypoglycemia: a literature review and introduction of the patient organization, Ketotic Hypoglycemia International13
Detailed analysis of phenotypes and genotypes in megalencephaly-capillary malformation-polymicrogyria syndrome caused by somatic mosaicism of PIK3CA mutations13
Differences in health care experiences between rare cancer and common cancer patients: results from a national cross-sectional survey13
Clinical, pathological, imaging, and genetic characterization in a Taiwanese cohort with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy13
Sanfilippo syndrome: consensus guidelines for clinical care13
Clouds over IMD? Perspectives for inherited metabolic diseases in adults from a retrospective cohort study in two Swiss adult metabolic clinics13
Clinical and molecular spectrum of 46,XY disorders of sex development that harbour MAMLD1 variations: case series and review of literature13
Liver manifestations in a cohort of 39 patients with congenital disorders of glycosylation: pin-pointing the characteristics of liver injury and proposing recommendations for follow-up13
A novel prognostic model for adult patients with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis13
Emergency management in epidermolysis bullosa: consensus clinical recommendations from the European reference network for rare skin diseases13
Twenty years of the Fabry Outcome Survey (FOS): insights, achievements, and lessons learned from a global patient registry13
Quantitative assessment of left ventricular longitudinal function and myocardial deformation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients13
Myocardial disease and ventricular arrhythmia in Marfan syndrome: a prospective study13
Challenging behavior in mucopolysaccharidoses types I–III and day-to-day coping strategies: a cross sectional explorative study13
Best practice guidelines for management of spinal disorders in skeletal dysplasia13
Long-term safety and clinical outcomes of olipudase alfa enzyme replacement therapy in pediatric patients with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency: two-year results13
Clinical, humanistic, and economic burden of severe hemophilia B in the United States: Results from the CHESS US and CHESS US+ population surveys13
Prevalence of low alkaline phosphatase activity in laboratory assessment: Is hypophosphatasia an underdiagnosed disease?13
A questionnaire-based study to comprehensively assess the status quo of rare disease patients and care-givers in China13
Genetic testing in inherited endocrine disorders: joint position paper of the European reference network on rare endocrine conditions (Endo-ERN)13
Turner syndrome: French National Diagnosis and Care Protocol (NDCP; National Diagnosis and Care Protocol)12
Glycogen storage diseases with liver involvement: a literature review of GSD type 0, IV, VI, IX and XI12
Children with a rare congenital genetic disorder: a systematic review of parent experiences12
Time for a general approval of growth hormone treatment in adults with Prader–Willi syndrome12
Genetic syndromes screening by facial recognition technology: VGG-16 screening model construction and evaluation12
Patient centered guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of Gaucher disease type 112
Imbalanced cortisol concentrations in glycogen storage disease type I: evidence for a possible link between endocrine regulation and metabolic derangement12
The parental perspective of thalassaemia in Bangladesh: lack of knowledge, regret, and barriers12
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