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    "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise neuroacanthocytosis as a disease-group concept, assess subtype and diagnostic uncertainty, and identify evidence needed for appropriate clinical review.",
    "definition": "Neuroacanthocytosis is a heterogeneous group of inherited neurological disorders associated with acanthocytes, or irregularly spiculated red blood cells, whose core syndromes are VPS13A disease and McLeod syndrome, although acanthocytes may be absent when tested.",
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      "Molecular, inheritance and blood-group evidence supporting subtype attribution",
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      "Laboratory assay operation, genomic variant databases and blood-product inventories",
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      "Determine whether the label denotes an umbrella group or a specific molecular disease; neuroacanthocytosis must not automatically mean VPS13A disease. [GeneReviews: VPS13A Disease](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1387/)",
      "Test whether the interpretation improperly requires acanthocytes: they can be absent in VPS13A disease, and their presence alone does not establish that diagnosis. [GeneReviews: VPS13A Disease](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1387/)",
      "Distinguish the McLeod blood-group phenotype using absent Kx and weakened or absent Kell expression; distinguish this laboratory phenotype from documented neurological involvement. [GeneReviews: McLeod Neuroacanthocytosis Syndrome](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1354/)",
      "Require evidence beyond chorea or another movement disorder before assigning neuroacanthocytosis; record whether genetic, haematological and clinical findings support the same subtype.",
      "Separate neurological disease with acanthocytosis from an incidental red-cell abnormality or an alternative disorder explaining both observations."
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        "why_it_matters": "Determines which inheritance, surveillance and management statements apply."
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        "why_it_matters": "Makes morphology results interpretable and comparable without treating a negative result as universal exclusion."
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      }
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      "Resolve a recorded neuroacanthocytosis label to its intended umbrella or subtype meaning.",
      "Identify missing or conflicting morphology, molecular and blood-group evidence for specialist review.",
      "Compare dated manifestations and functional observations without inventing a universal staging system.",
      "Identify assessment and surveillance questions appropriate to the supported subtype.",
      "Prepare a provenance-linked clinical summary that separates observations, interpretations and unresolved claims."
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        "Explain neuroacanthocytosis syndromes and their genetics from medical sources.",
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        "Diagnose or rule out these disorders in a specific person.",
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        "Present unproven therapies as cures.",
        "Treat movement or behaviour symptoms as wilful misconduct."
      ],
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        "Decisions on genetic testing, including of relatives.",
        "Decisions on feeding support or care placement."
      ]
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        "Rare inherited diseases affect whole families and their choices.",
        "Neuropsychiatric symptoms can lead to stigma and misunderstanding."
      ],
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        "Carers"
      ]
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        "Rare disease patient registries"
      ]
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      "Swallowing problems and tongue biting can cause choking and weight loss.",
      "Seizures and falls cause injury."
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      "Neuroacanthocytosis is encountered in neurology, clinical genetics and research concerning inherited disorders with neurological and blood cell abnormalities.",
      "The term groups related presentations while leaving the underlying syndrome to be established from clinical and laboratory evidence.",
      "It supports discussion of diagnostic uncertainty because acanthocytes may be absent in a tested sample."
    ],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "The Orphanet nomenclature of rare diseases, maintained by the INSERM-coordinated Orphanet network, provides classification and identifiers for neuroacanthocytosis and its constituent disorders."
    ],
    "facets_not_applicable": {
      "recognition": "Neuroacanthocytosis is a disease-group concept that cannot be identified visually from a person or a blood smear alone."
    }
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      "title": "Wikidata item Q746781: neuroacanthocytosis",
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      "id": "wikipedia-en",
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        "description": "Establish what neuroacanthocytosis denotes in each assertion.",
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                  {
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                    "text": "Which authority and publication date support including or excluding each proposed member?",
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                "questions": [
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                    "text": "Which ICD-10, ICD-11 or SNOMED CT release and jurisdiction provide the proposed mapping, and is it exact, broader or narrower?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "versioned-concept-mapping-q01"
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                  {
                    "text": "Does a quoted prevalence count the umbrella group or a particular subtype, in which population and observation period?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "versioned-concept-mapping-q02"
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        "id": "diagnostic-evidence",
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        "description": "Assess red-cell, clinical and molecular evidence without equating a suggestive observation with a diagnosis.",
        "rationale": "Acanthocytosis and neurological findings require interpretation together with subtype-specific evidence.",
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                    "id": "interpretable-acanthocyte-result-q01"
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                    "text": "How were acanthocytes distinguished from echinocytes or preparation artefacts, and does uncertainty justify laboratory review?",
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                  }
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                "description": "McLeod syndrome can involve cardiac disease as well as a distinctive blood-group phenotype; record specialist interpretation and assessed involvement. [GeneReviews: McLeod Neuroacanthocytosis Syndrome](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1354/)",
                "questions": [
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                    "text": "What Kx/Kell findings and antibody results are documented, and has transfusion medicine recorded their compatibility implications?",
                    "kind": "action",
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                    "text": "What cardiac symptoms, investigations and surveillance recommendations are documented for the supported subtype?",
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                    "text": "Do documented swallowing difficulties, weight change, seizures, injuries or cardiac symptoms require a change in assessment priority?",
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                    "id": "prioritised-specialist-review-q01"
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                    "text": "Which neurology, swallowing, nutrition, cardiology, haematology or genetics review would resolve the identified concern?",
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                    "text": "Which baseline, intended outcome, adverse effects and reassessment interval would allow the treating team to evaluate benefit?",
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                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "The term has variable scope: distinguish the two core syndromes from historically broader groupings of neurological disorders with acanthocytosis.",
                  "This is a recall-based description; no sources or current classification revisions were checked.",
                  "Verify subtype-specific diagnostic criteria, ICD and SNOMED CT mappings, and population-specific prevalence before publication; no universal acanthocyte threshold is asserted."
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                    "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of neuroacanthocytosis this model covers, and on what evidence?",
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                    "note": "Identifies chorea-acanthocytosis, now commonly called VPS13A disease; it does not identify the entire neuroacanthocytosis group."
                  },
                  {
                    "scheme": "HGNC gene symbols",
                    "value_or_pattern": "VPS13A; XK",
                    "note": "Genes associated with VPS13A disease and McLeod syndrome, respectively; these are gene identifiers, not interchangeable disease codes."
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                  "A diagnostic grouping considered in patients with combinations of chorea, dystonia, psychiatric or cognitive changes, seizures, and peripheral neuromuscular abnormalities.",
                  "Distinguishing the underlying disorder guides genetic counselling, family testing, and surveillance.",
                  "Recognition of McLeod syndrome informs cardiac assessment and specialist transfusion planning."
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                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
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                    "unit": "% of examined red blood cells"
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                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of neuroacanthocytosis this model covers, and on what evidence?",
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                  }
                ]
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                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
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                  "Excluding the diagnosis because a routine blood smear shows no acanthocytes.",
                  "Treating acanthocytosis alone as diagnostic despite its occurrence in other disorders.",
                  "Confusing acanthocytes with echinocytes or preparation artifacts.",
                  "Missing dysphagia, aspiration risk, seizures, or self-injurious oral movements in affected patients.",
                  "Missing cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, or transfusion compatibility issues associated with McLeod syndrome."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of neuroacanthocytosis this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "Acanthocytosis",
                    "difference": "A red-cell morphological finding that can occur without an inherited neurological syndrome."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Huntington disease",
                    "difference": "An overlapping progressive movement and neuropsychiatric disorder distinguished by a pathogenic CAG expansion in HTT."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Abetalipoproteinemia",
                    "difference": "Can cause acanthocytosis and neurological impairment through a lipid-transport disorder with fat malabsorption and vitamin deficiency; historically included in broader uses of neuroacanthocytosis."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of neuroacanthocytosis this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Which contemporary authority should define the registry umbrella's membership, especially the status of historically associated lipid disorders, Huntington disease-like 2 and pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration?",
    "Which current ICD-10, ICD-11 and SNOMED CT identifiers map to the umbrella and its constituent diseases in the intended jurisdiction?",
    "Which diagnostic frameworks and acanthocyte assessment methods should be adopted, and what are their limitations across subtypes and disease phases?",
    "What population- and year-specific prevalence estimates are sufficiently supported, and how much do ascertainment and subtype definitions affect them?",
    "Which longitudinal outcome measures, surveillance intervals and intervention evidence are validated for each subtype rather than extrapolated across the group?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 6,
    "layers": 11,
    "findings": 17,
    "questions": 28
  }
}
