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The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers set out on a worldwide search to find out all they could about Rett syndrome, establishing databases and creating awareness.

We developed recommendations to assess and manage issues relating to poor growth and weight gain in Rett syndrome, including consideration of gastrostomy.

We investigated our data from family questionnaires to see how feeding difficulties related to age, the type of MECP2 mutation, and the use of gastrostomy.

We developed a measure of hand function, and then investigated relationships between hand function, type of MECP2 mutation, age and severity of symptoms.

We investigated what parents thought about the ways to manage scoliosis and what they thought they needed to help them better manage their daughter's scoliosis.

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The goals were to compare the fracture incidence in Rett syndrome with that in the general population and to investigate the impact of genotype, epilepsy,...

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This study investigated the relationships between fracture risk and commonly used AEDs in Rett syndrome.

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Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that typically affects females. Little is known about the natural history and survival time of these femal