Types of Leukodystrophy
The Leukodystrophies (in alphabetical order)
The known leukodystrophies are listed below.
18q Syndrome with deficiency of myelin basic protein
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyeolitis (ADEM)
Acute Disseminated Leukoencephalitis
Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalopathy
Adrenoleukodystrophy X-Linked (ALD)
Adult-onset Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy (ADLD)
Autosomal Dominant Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids (HDLS)
Autosomal Dominant Late-Onset Leukoencephalopathy
Childhood Ataxia with diffuse CNS Hypomyelination (CACH or Vanishing White Matter Disease)
Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteropathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis (CTX)
Craniometaphysical Dysplasia with Leukoencephalopathy
Cystic Leukoencephalopathy with RNASET2
Extensive Cerebral White Matter abnormality without clinical symptoms
Familial Adult-Onset Leukodystrophy manifesting as cerebellar ataxia and dementia
Familial Leukodystrophy with adult onset dementia and abnormal glycolipid storage
Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (Krabbe Disease)
Hereditary Adult Onset Leukodystrophy simulating chronic progressive multiple sclerosis
Hypomyelination with Atrophy of the Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum (HABC)
Hypomyelination, Hypogonadotropic, Hypogonadism and Hypodontia (4H Syndrome)
Lipomembranous Osteodysplasia with Leukodystrophy (Nasu Disease)
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD)
Megalencephalic Leukodystrophy with subcortical Cysts (MLC)
Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD)
Oculodetatoldigital Dysplasia with cerebral white matter abnormalities
Orthochromatic Lleukodystrophy with pigmented glia
Ovarioleukodystrophy Syndrome
Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease (X-linked spastic paraplegia)
Sudanophilic Leukodystrophy
Van der Knaap Syndrome (Vacuolating Leukodystrophy with Subcortical Cysts or MLC)
X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD)
Zellweger Spectrum: Zellweger Syndrome, Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy, and Infantile Refsum Disease

