Professor of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Neurology

Doctor Basil T. Darras, MD is an expert in the field of Neurology. He went to medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7 in research and 57 in primary care medicine He received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "Boston Herald" and "Super Doctor". Doctor Basil T. Darras, MD is a published doctor. He published 101 publications, including: 'Exclusion of the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) locus as a candidate gene for Rett syndrome.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Dystrophinopathies.
• Outcome reliability in non-Ambulatory Boys/Men with duchenne Muscular dystrophy.
• A slowly progressive form of limb-girdle Muscular dystrophy type 2C associated with founder mutation in the SGCG gene in Puerto Rican Hispanics.
• Inter-session reliability of electrical impedance myography in children in a clinical trial setting.
• Composite Biomarkers for Assessing Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: An Initial Assessment.
• One Year Outcome of Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Using the Bayley-III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development.
• Optimizing electrical impedance myography measurements by using a multifrequency ratio: A study in Duchenne Muscular dystrophy.
• Quantitative muscle ultrasound in duchenne Muscular dystrophy: A comparison of techniques.
• Comparison of Plasmapheresis and Intravenous Immunoglobulin as Maintenance Therapies for Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis.
• Cross-sectional Evaluation of Electrical Impedance Myography and Quantitative Ultrasound for the Assessment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in a Clinical Trial Setting.
• Progression of spinal deformity in wheelchair-dependent patients with Duchenne Muscular dystrophy who are not treated with steroids: coronal plane (scoliosis) and sagi...
• NeuroMuscular disorders: from diagnosis to translational research, drug development and clinical trials.
• Exome sequencing identifies a novel SMCHD1 mutation in facioscapulohumeral Muscular dystrophy 2.
• Minimal training is required to reliably perform quantitative ultrasound of muscle.
• Identification of KLHL41 Mutations Implicates BTB-Kelch-Mediated Ubiquitination as an Alternate Pathway to Myofibrillar Disruption in Nemaline Myopathy.
• Lambert-Eaton Syndrome, an Unrecognized Treatable Pediatric NeuroMuscular Disorder: Three Patients and Literature Review.
• The motor neuron response to SMN1 deficiency in spinal Muscular atrophy.
• Motor and cognitive assessment of infants and young boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: results from the Muscular Dystrophy Association DMD Clinical Research Network.
• Clinical correlates of charcot-marie-tooth disease in patients with pes cavus deformities.
• Prospective cohort study of spinal Muscular atrophy types 2 and 3.
• The spectrum of myotonic and myopathic Disorders in a pediatric electromyography laboratory over 12 years.
• Electrical impedance myography in spinal Muscular atrophy: A longitudinal study.
• Spinal Muscular atrophy: a clinical and research update.
• Validation of the Expanded Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II and III.
• Autoimmune NeuroMuscular Disorders in Childhood.
• Assessing electrical impedance alterations in spinal Muscular atrophy via the finite element method.
• Non-5q spinal Muscular atrophies: The alphanumeric soup thickens.
• Child neurology residency training in neuroMuscular disorders.
• Assessing spinal Muscular atrophy with quantitative ultrasound.
• Pediatric sciatic neuropathy associated with neoplasms.
• Serum transaminase levels in boys with Duchenne and Becker Muscular dystrophy.
• Characterizing spinal Muscular atrophy with electrical impedance myography.
• Electrophysiologic evidence for anterior horn cell disease in amyoplasia.
• Inefficient dystrophin expression after cord blood transplantation in Duchenne Muscular dystrophy.
• Child neurology: past, present, and future: part 2: Present training structure.
• Pediatric monomelic amyotrophy: evidence for poliomyelitis in vulnerable populations.
• Congenital myasthenic syndrome with episodic apnea.
• The longitudinal course of cardiomyopathy in Friedreich's Ataxia during childhood.
• Juvenile myasthenia gravis.
• Motor variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in a child.
• Cardiac manifestations in a child with a novel mutation in creatine transporter gene SLC6A8.
• Inherited myopathies and Muscular dystrophies.
• Clinical trials in spinal Muscular atrophy.
• Posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis in duchenne Muscular dystrophy diminishes the rate of respiratory decline.
• Nemaline myopathy with minicores caused by mutation of the CFL2 gene encoding the skeletal muscle actin-binding protein, cofilin-2.
• Dichloroacetate causes toxic neuropathy in MELAS: a randomized, controlled clinical trial.
• Catecholamine toxicity in aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency.
• Diagnostic challenges for Pompe disease: an under-recognized cause of floppy baby syndrome.
• Scapulothoracic fusion for facioscapulohumeral Muscular dystrophy.
• NeuroMuscular problems of the critically ill neonate and child.
• Multifocal slowing of nerve conduction in metachromatic leukoDystrophy.
• Hemolytic anemia and severe rhabdomyolysis caused by compound heterozygous mutations of the gene for erythrocyte/muscle isozyme of aldolase, ALDOA(Arg303X/Cys338Tyr).
• Diagnostic value of electromyography and muscle biopsy in arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.
• Peroneal neuropathy from ankle-foot orthoses.
• Rod photoreceptor function in children with mitochondrial Disorders.
• Osteoid osteoma presenting with focal neurologic signs.
• Frequency of p53 tumor suppressor gene mutations in human primary brain tumors.
• Aggressive oligodendroglioma predicted by chromosome 10 restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Case study.
• Loss of heterozygosity for alleles on chromosome 10 in human brain tumours.
• Sensitivity of single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis in detecting p53 point mutations in tumors with mixed cell populations.
• SMA-MAP: A Plasma Protein Panel for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
• Clonal analysis of meningiomas.
• NeuroMuscular disorders in the newborn.
• Exclusion of the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) locus as a candidate gene for Rett syndrome.
• A mutation in the alpha 3 chain of type IX collagen causes autosomal dominant multiple epiphyseal dysplasia with mild myopathy.
• Metabolic myopathies: a clinical approach; part II.
• Metabolic myopathies: a clinical approach; part I.
• Identification of a novel truncating mutation (S171X) in the Emerin gene in five members of a Caucasian American family with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy.
• Diagnosis of pediatric neuroMuscular disorders in the era of DNA analysis.
• Acute care pediatric electromyography.
• Exclusion of growth factor gene mutations as a common cause of Sotos syndrome.
• Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging findings in Krabbe's disease.
• Novel and recurrent mutations in lamin A/C in patients with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy.
• Detection of mutations in the dystrophin gene via automated DHPLC screening and direct sequencing.
• Primary gamma-sarcoglycanopathy (LGMD 2C): broadening of the mutational spectrum guided by the immunohistochemical profile.
• Myopathy in complex glycerol kinase deficiency patients is due to 3' deletions of the dystrophin gene.
• Congenital adrenal hypoplasia, myopathy, and glycerol kinase deficiency: molecular genetic evidence for deletions.
• A partial deletion of the Muscular dystrophy gene transmitted twice by an unaffected male.
• Direct method for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection in Duchenne/Becker Muscular dystrophy using the entire dystrophin cDNA.
• Normal human genomic restriction-fragment patterns and polymorphisms revealed by hybridization with the entire dystrophin cDNA.
• Intragenic deletions in 21 Duchenne Muscular dystrophy (DMD)/Becker Muscular dystrophy (BMD) families studied with the dystrophin cDNA: location of breakpoints on Hind...
• Brother/sister pairs affected with early-onset, progressive Muscular dystrophy: molecular studies reveal etiologic heterogeneity.
• Intermittent Dystonia in Hartnup disease.
• Assignment of human genes for phosphorylase kinase subunits alpha (PHKA) to Xq12-q13 and beta (PHKB) to 16q12-q13.
• Loss of heterozygosity on the short arm of chromosome 17 in human astrocytomas.
• A search for X-chromosome uniparental disomy and DNA rearrangements in the Rett syndrome.
• Eastern equine encephalitis presenting with a focal brain lesion.
• Structure of the human cytochrome c oxidase subunit Vb gene and chromosomal mapping of the coding gene and of seven pseudogenes.
• Origin of mutations in two families with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.
• Novel use of a chimpanzee pseudogene for chromosomal mapping of human cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV.
• Molecular genetics of Duchenne and Becker Muscular dystrophy.
• The gene for the RNA component of the mitochondrial RNA-processing endoribonuclease is located on human chromosome 9p and on mouse chromosome 4.
• Cloning and expression of human nebulin cDNAs and assignment of the gene to chromosome 2q31-q32.
• Familial amyloidosis with cranial neuropathy and corneal lattice Dystrophy.
• Prenatal diagnosis and detection of carriers with DNA probes in Duchenne's Muscular dystrophy.
• Globoid cell leukoDystrophy: cranial computed tomography and evoked potentials.
• Results from a phase 1 study of nusinersen (ISIS-SMNRx) in children with spinal Muscular atrophy.
• Patterns of disease progression in type 2 and 3 SMA: Implications for clinical trials.
• Physical therapy services received by individuals with spinal Muscular atrophy (SMA).
• Baseline results of the NeuroNEXT spinal Muscular atrophy infant biomarker study.

Schools

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• University Of Athens School Of Health Sciences

• Apostolos Pavlos Hospital

• Nassau County Med Center

• New England Med Center

• Yale University School Of Med

Procedures Preformed

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• EMG (Electromyography)

Conditions Treated

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• Ataxia
• Convulsions
• Dystonia
• Epilepsy
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Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Genetics
• Neuromuscular Medicine
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatrics
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• Boston Magazine
• Boston Herald
• Super Doctor

Education

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• Yale University School of Medicine
• Tufts Medical Center
• Nassau University Medical Center
• University of Athens

Hospital

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• Boston Children's Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1538191309
NPPES Provider LastName		DARRAS
NPPES Provider FirstName		BASIL
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		021155724
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Pediatric Medicine
Total Claim Count		95.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1538191309
Last Name Of The Provider	DARRAS
First Name Of The Provider	BASIL
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