Leukodystrophy Types
There are 56 plus forms that come under the banner of Leukodystrophy.
Information on some of the types of Leukodystrophy and its name can be found below in alphabetical order.
Some of the below information has been sourced from the United Leukodystrophy Foundation with their permission and replicated here for your information. We thank them most sincerely for their generosity.
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- A
- C
- E
- F
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN)
- Adult Onset Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy (ADLD)
- Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease
- Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
- Alexanders Disease (ALX)
- Autosomal Dominant Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with Neuroaxonal Spheroids (HDLS)
- AARS
- AARS2
- Canavan Disease (CD)
- Cathepsin A-related arteriopathy with strokes and leukoencephalopathy (CARASAL)
- Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
- Cerebral Autosomal Recessive Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL)
- Cerebroretinal Micro-Angiography with Calcifications and Cysts
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis (CTX)
- Childhood Ataxia With Diffuse Central Nervous System Hypomyelination or Vanishing White Matter Disease (CACH/VWM)
- ClC2-related leukoencephalopathy
- Coates plus
- Cockayne syndrome
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Elongation of Very Long-Chain Fatty Acids-4 (ELOVL4; Pseudo-Sjogren-Larsson)
- Fatty Acid 2-Hydroxylase Deficiency
- Fucosidosis
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (Krabbe Disease)
- GM1 Gangliosidosis
- GM2 Gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs Disease)
- Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS or Neuroaxonal Leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids)
- Hypomyelination with Atrophy of the Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum (H-ABC)
- Hypomyelination, Hypogonadotropic, Hypogonadism and Hypodontia ( see 4H Syndrome)
- Hypomyelination with Brain Stem and Spinal Cord Involvement and Leg Spasticity (HBSL)
- Hypomyelination with congenital cataract (HCC)
- Hypomyelination not otherwise specified
- Leukoencephalopathy with Brain Stem and Spinal Cord Involvement and Lactate Elevation (LBSL)
- Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC)
- Leukoencephalopathy with thalamus and brainstem involvement and high lactate (LTBL)
- Lipomembranous Osteodysplasia with Leukodystrophy (Nasu Disease)
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- Megalencephalic Leukodystrophy with Subcortical Cysts (MLC)
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD)
- Mitochondrial leukodystrophies
- Multiple sulfatase deficiency
- Oculodetatoldigital Dysplasia with Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities
- Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
- Ovarioleukodystrophy Syndrome
- RARS2-related hypomyelination
- Refsum Disease
- RNAse T2 deficient leukoencephalopathy
- S
- V
- X
- Z
- Sialic acid storage disorders (Salla disease, Infantile Sialic Acid Storage Disease and Intermediate form)
- Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome (SLS)
- SOX10-associated PCWH: peripheral demyelinating neuropathy, central dysmyelinating leukodystrophy, Waardenburg syndrome, and Hirschsprung disease