Morbidity and mortality associated with Farber disease and prospects for therapy
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Abstract
Introduction: Farber disease is the lysosomal storage disorder due to the deficiency of acid ceramidase activity. Although it was described over six decades ago, it remains poorly described due to its unusual clinical presentation and rarity. No targeted therapies currently exist.Areas covered: The history of Farber disease, acid ceramidase and research leading to the development of therapy will be summarized, along with current knowledge regarding the clinical presentation and patient management.Expert opinion: Farber disease is often misdiagnosed as idiopathic juvenile arthritis. The clinical presentation is broad, with onset and survival ranging from early childhood to adults. Multiple organ systems, including the central nervous system, may be involved, but the most consistent finding in all patients is subcutaneous nodules that form mostly around joints. The nodules consist of lipid-filled macrophages, and inflammation is a major driver of the pathobiology. Pain, dysphonia and limitation of movement are common associated findings in patients. Current management is symptomatic aiming to reduce pain and inflammation. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been undertaken in several patients, and may have positive effects on the non-neurological findings. Studies in Farber disease mice have also revealed the potential of enzyme replacement therapy, and first-in-man clinical trials are currently being planned.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".