Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere Syndrome

Most doctors might never encounter a patient with riboflavin transporter deficiency type II (RTD Type II) in their entire career. Sometimes referred to as Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere Syndrome (BVVL), the disease was recently renamed to more accurately describe the condition. Currently, there are less than 100 people diagnosed with this condition in the world, which makes it one of the rarest [...]

Lauren’s daughter and son. My daughter came into this world three years after my son was born. This was about 15 months after he developed the first of what would be a series of health declines in the years to come. (Having spent 15 years searching for answers, my son was finally diagnosed in late [...]