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Loupatty FJ, Ruiter JPN, IJlst L, Duran M, Wanders RJA. Direct Nonisotopic Assay of 3-Methylglutaconyl-CoA Hydratase in Cultured Human Skin Fibroblasts to Specifically Identify Patients with 3-Methylglutaconic Aciduria Type I. Clin Chem 2004; 50:1447-50. [PMID: 15192029 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.033142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ference J Loupatty
- Academic Medical Centre, Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Emma Children's Hospital, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Laube GF, Leonard JV, van't Hoff WG. Nephrocalcinosis and medullary cysts in 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. Pediatr Nephrol 2003; 18:712-3. [PMID: 12750979 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-003-1151-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2002] [Revised: 02/05/2003] [Accepted: 02/05/2003] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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3-methylglutaconic aciduria is frequently found during urine organic acid analysis and is widely regarded as a marker of a mitochondrial disorder, the clinical features of which are very heterogeneous. We describe two siblings with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria in whom renal ultrasonography showed echogenic medullae consistent with nephrocalcinosis. One patient also developed medullary cysts. In both children renal function was normal and neither had any plasma or urinary evidence of tubulopathy. The presence of nephrocalcinosis and medullary cysts in patients with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria adds to the heterogeneous clinical presentation of this group of disorders.
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- Guido F Laube
- Nephrourology Unit, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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A number of organic and amino acidemias, particularly those that involve the oxidation of fatty acids, cause hypoglycemia intermittently. This may be associated with distrubances of acid base equilibrium and accumulation of lactic acid and/or ketone bodies. When such diseases are not diagnosed rapidly, they might lead to neurological crippling and, at times, death. As a group, these disorders involve more than 1 organ and their phenotypic expression may include all or a single system. The symptoms may appear soon after birth or as late as 1 year of age. Their early recognition and rapid intervention provide rewarding clinical outcome. With the recent advances in diagnostic techniques, such as the introduction of tandem mass spectrometry (MS), screening for these diseases now can be performed because rapid identification on a large scale is possible. The phenotypes, mutations involved, pathognomonic laboratory findings, prognosis, and treatment procedures available have been reviewed for major diseases.
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- P T Ozand
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Holtmann MH, Galle PR, Stremmel W, Mayatepek E. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria associated with hepatosplenomegaly, macrocytic anaemia, fever episodes, recurrent infections, cervical lymphadenopathy and progressive decrease of physical performance. J Inherit Metab Dis 1998; 21:683-5. [PMID: 9762609 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005449004505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- M H Holtmann
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Brismar J, Ozand PT. CT and MR of the brain in the diagnosis of organic acidemias. Experiences from 107 patients. Brain Dev 1994; 16 Suppl:104-24. [PMID: 7726375 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(94)90103-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The results of CT and/or MRI of the brain in 107 patients with different types of organic acidemia are presented. The CSF spaces were wide in more than two-thirds of the patients, in 46 slightly-to-moderately and in 26 markedly-to-severely dilated. Marked widening of the operculae was found in all 5 patients with glutaric acidemia type 1, but open opercula was also found in other organic acidemias. White matter changes were found in about half the patients, in 28 mildly-to-moderately pronounced, in another 28 marked or severe. Basal ganglia or central pathway pathology was seen in a total of 34 patients, i.e. 32%. These changes in 25 patients involved the caudate and/or lentiform nuclei: in 14 cases the T2 signal was increased and volume loss was present, in 9 cases increased T2 signal with preserved volume was found (in one of these the changes were transient). In 2 patients, both with ethylmalonic aciduria (cause unknown), only small high T2 spots were seen in the caudate heads and the putamina. In 4 patients, all suffering from methylmalonic acidemia, only the globus pallidus was affected. In 3 patients, all with beta-ketothiolase deficiency, high T2 intensity changes were seen only in the postero-lateral putamina. The remaining 8 patients represent a variety of different locations of lesions. The CT or MRI findings in many patients with organic acidemias should alert the radiologist that a neurometabolic disorder may be present; in some cases the location and appearance of the lesions may even suggest the correct diagnosis.
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MESH Headings
- Acidosis/urine
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnostic imaging
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/pathology
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/urine
- Brain/diagnostic imaging
- Brain/pathology
- Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnostic imaging
- Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/pathology
- Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/urine
- Child, Preschool
- Fatty Acids/metabolism
- Female
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- Humans
- Infant
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnostic imaging
- Metabolism, Inborn Errors/pathology
- Metabolism, Inborn Errors/urine
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Vitamins/metabolism
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- J Brismar
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Worthen HG, al Ashwal A, Ozand PT, Garawi S, Rahbeeni Z, al Odaib A, Subramanyam SB, Rashed M. Comparative frequency and severity of hypoglycemia in selected organic acidemias, branched chain amino acidemia, and disorders of fructose metabolism. Brain Dev 1994; 16 Suppl:81-5. [PMID: 7726385 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(94)90100-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The Institution's experience with hypoglycemia in different types of organic acidemias, branched chain amino acidemia (MSUD), and disorders of fructose metabolism was reviewed retrospectively. The charts of 144 patients who were followed for 1-5 years were studied for the severity and frequency of hypoglycemia. The patients were mainly Saudi; however, 10-25% were from neighboring countries. Therefore, the observations pertain to the genetic groups in the Arabian peninsula. Organic acidemias which primarily manifest with neurologic signs, such as 4-hydroxybutyric aciduria, infantile onset 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, and glutaric aciduria type 1 never showed hypoglycemia. Patients with beta-ketothiolase deficiency, biotinidase deficiency, or intermittent or intermediate MSUD, also did not have hypoglycemia during metabolic crisis. Hypoglycemia was rare and mild among neonates with classic MSUD, ethylmalonic aciduria, and isovaleric acidemia. Less than 50% of the patients with MSUD older than 8 months, pyruvate carboxylase deficiency, methylmalonic acidemia, or propionic acidemia had hypoglycemia during metabolic crisis. On the other hand, patients with 3-hydroxy-3-methyl glutaryl-CoA lyase deficiency, holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency, medium or long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, neonatal onset 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, glutaric aciduria type 2, and disorders of fructose metabolism invariably had moderate-to-severe hypoglycemia associated with metabolic crisis. The purpose of this report is to provide the pediatrician, particularly in the Middle East, with a diagnostic guideline to the identification and management of different types of organic acidemias, based on co-existing hypoglycemia.
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- H G Worthen
- Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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al Aqeel A, Rashed M, Ozand PT, Brismar J, Gascon GG, al Odaib A, Dabbagh O. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria: ten new cases with a possible new phenotype. Brain Dev 1994; 16 Suppl:23-32. [PMID: 7726378 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(94)90093-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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3-Methylglutaconic aciduria is an organic aciduria with diverse phenotypic presentations. In more than half of the cases it is a 'neurologic or silent organic aciduria', and, except for one subtype, the biochemical defect is unknown. This report describes 10 new patients. Four of them presented with early global neurologic involvement and arrested development. They rapidly became demented, developed myoclonus or tonic-clonic seizures, spastic quadriplegia, deafness and blindness, and died. Three had acidosis and hypoglycemia neonatally; later, myoclonus and deafness, and eventually severe mental retardation and spastic quadriplegia developed. One patient died. In three children who presented with sudden onset of extrapyramidal tract symptoms, with or without optic atrophy, the clinical presentation was significantly different from that described either for 'unspecified' type or for Costeff syndrome. All three patients showed clinical improvement soon after treatment with coenzyme Q.
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- A al Aqeel
- Department of Pediatrics, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia
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Elpeleg ON, Costeff H, Joseph A, Shental Y, Weitz R, Gibson KM. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria in the Iraqi-Jewish 'optic atrophy plus' (Costeff) syndrome. Dev Med Child Neurol 1994; 36:167-72. [PMID: 7510656 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1994.tb11825.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Eleven new patients of Iraqi-Jewish origin with bilateral optic atrophy, neurological abnormalities ('optic atrophy plus' syndrome) and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria (type III) are described. Clinical abnormalities in decreasing order of frequency were bilateral optic atrophy, extrapyramidal signs, spasticity, ataxia, dysarthria and cognitive deficit. An association with age was found only for spasticity. Spasticity, extrapyramidal signs and optic atrophy frequently led to major disability, in contrast to ataxia, dysarthria and cognitive deficit. The combined excretion of 3-methylglutaconic and 3-methylglutaric acid ranged between 9 and 187 mmol/mol creatinine. The primary enzymatic defect possibly may reside in the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
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- O N Elpeleg
- Metabolic Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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The most common clinical syndromes associated with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria are presented. In some patients these syndromes are multisystemic, progressive disorders of unknown etiology. Tissues deriving significant energy through oxidative metabolism (notably brain and cardiac muscle) are most often affected and in some the primary defect may reside within the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Although increasing biochemical evidence suggests that 3-methylglutaconic aciduria may correlate with deranged mitochondrial energy metabolism, the biochemical origin of 3-methylglutaconic acid and the significance of its increased excretion remain unknown. This review describes these syndromes and illustrates the necessity of urinary organic acid analysis to assist in the differential diagnosis.
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- K M Gibson
- Baylor Research Institute, Baylor Univ. Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75226
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Costeff H, Elpeleg O, Apter N, Divry P, Gadoth N. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria in "optic atrophy plus". Ann Neurol 1993; 33:103-4. [PMID: 8494328 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410330117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Behr's syndrome consists of recessively inherited infantile optic atrophy, together with chronic neurological disturbances such as ataxia, extrapyramidal dysfunction, and juvenile spastic paresis. This syndrome was found to be relatively common among Iraqi Jews. For our study, 18 such patients underwent metabolic study. All 18 showed abnormally elevated excretion of 3-methylglutaconic acid in their urine. The basic enzymatic defect is as yet unknown. We recommend that patients with early optic atrophy, and especially those with motor dysfunction, be examined for this organic aciduria.
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- H Costeff
- Neuropediatric Unit, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel
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Sheffer RN, Zlotogora J, Elpeleg ON, Raz J, Ben-Ezra D. Behr's syndrome and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. Am J Ophthalmol 1992; 114:494-7. [PMID: 1384336 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)71864-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We examined three patients from two families of Jewish-Iraqi origin who had progressive reduction of visual acuity and childhood onset of bilateral optic nerve atrophy without additional retinal abnormalities. They had neurologic symptoms compatible with Behr's syndrome. Neurologic signs included increased tendon reflexes, a positive Babinski sign, progressive spastic paraplegia, dysarthria, head nodding, and horizontal nystagmus. Neurologic involvement varied between affected siblings. The patients excreted excessive amounts of 3-methylglutaconic acid and 3-methylglutaric acid in their urine. We compared the characteristic ophthalmic features and the spectrum of neurologic signs encountered in this recently delineated autosomal recessive clinical entity with those of previously described entities associated with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. Patients with early-onset optic atrophy should be examined for neurologic signs and screened for organic aciduria. A detailed ophthalmic examination is important in patients with neurologic abnormalities compatible with Behr's syndrome.
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- R N Sheffer
- Department of Human Genetics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Kuhara T, Matsumoto I, Saiki K, Takabayashi H, Kuwabara S. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria in two adults. Clin Chim Acta 1992; 207:151-3. [PMID: 1375542 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(92)90159-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Bakkeren JA, Sengers RC, Ruitenbeek W, Trijbels JM. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria in a patient with a disturbed mitochondrial energy metabolism. Eur J Pediatr 1992; 151:313. [PMID: 1499591 DOI: 10.1007/bf02072242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Figarella-Branger D, Pellissier JF, Scheiner C, Wernert F, Desnuelle C. Defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes in three pediatric cases with hypotonia and cardiac involvement. J Neurol Sci 1992; 108:105-13. [PMID: 1320661 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(92)90195-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Three children displaying hypotonia, cardiac involvement and defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes are reported. The first case showed severe neonatal hypotonia, failure to thrive, hepatomegaly, dilation of the right cardiac cavities, profound lactic acidosis and amino aciduria. The boy died at the age of 7 weeks. In the second case hypotonia, severe cardiomyopathy, cyclic neutropenia, lactic acidosis and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria occurred. The boy died at the age of 27 months. The third case presented at the age of 16 months as an acute hypokinetic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with transient hypotonia and mild lactic acidosis. Spontaneous clinical remission occurred. In all cases muscle biopsy was performed. Morphological studies failed to show ragged-red fibers but there was lipid storage myopathy and decreased cytochrome c oxidase activity. Biochemical studies confirmed the cytochrome c oxidase deficiency in muscle in all cases. It was associated with complex I III deficiency in case 1 and with severe deficits of all respiratory chain complexes in case 2. Post-mortem studies in case 1 indicated that complex IV was reduced in the liver but not in the heart and quantitative analysis of mtDNA revealed a depletion in muscle. Cases 1 and 2 shared some clinical features with fatal infantile myopathy associated with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency, while case 3 displayed a very unusual clinical presentation. The histochemical enzyme reaction of cytochrome c oxidase is useful for the diagnosis of mitochondrial myopathy because ragged-red fibers may be lacking. Finally, biochemical measurement of the different mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes is required because multiple defects are frequent and occasionally related to mtDNA depletion.
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- D Figarella-Branger
- Laboratoire d'Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France
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van der Knaap MS, van der Grond J, Luyten PR, den Hollander JA, Nauta JJ, Valk J. 1H and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain in degenerative cerebral disorders. Ann Neurol 1992; 31:202-11. [PMID: 1575459 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410310211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain was performed in 35 patients with degenerative cerebral disorders: 24 patients had demyelinating (white matter) disorders and 11 patients had neuronal (gray matter) disorders. Four grades of demyelination and three grades of cerebral atrophy were distinguished by magnetic resonance imaging criteria. The spectroscopic data were compared with normal values previously obtained. With increasing degrees of demyelination, lower ratios of phosphodiesters to beta-ATP were found. This trend was statistically significant. Decreased phosphodiester-beta-ATP ratios occurred simultaneously with imaging abnormalities. The decrease in phosphodiester-beta-ATP ratio in demyelinated areas is attributed to white matter rarefaction. Increasing cerebral atrophy was accompanied by lower ratios of N-acetyl aspartate to creatine. This trend was statistically significant. The decrease in the N-acetyl aspartate-creatine ratio was demonstrated before the magnetic resonance images showed signs of cerebral atrophy in patients with neuronal disorders. As N-acetyl aspartate is located exclusively in neurons and their branches, a decrease of the N-acetyl aspartate-creatine ratio can be attributed to neuronal and axonal damage and loss.
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- M S van der Knaap
- Department of Child Neurology, University Hospital for Children, Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- K M Gibson
- Kimberly H. Courtwright and Joseph W. Summers Metabolic Disease Center, Dallas, Texas
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Chitayat D, Chemke J, Gibson KM, Mamer OA, Kronick JB, McGill JJ, Rosenblatt B, Sweetman L, Scriver CR. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria: a marker for as yet unspecified disorders and the relevance of prenatal diagnosis in a 'new' type ('type 4'). J Inherit Metab Dis 1992; 15:204-12. [PMID: 1382150 DOI: 10.1007/bf01799632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The Mendelian disorder known as 3-methylgutaconic aciduria (McKusick 250950) gives evidence of allelic and locus heterogeneity. Type 1 has a mild clinical phenotype and confirmed 3-methylgutaconyl-CoA hydratase deficiency; inheritance is autosomal recessive. Other forms have major clinical manifestations and subdivide into X-linked (type 2), a form in Iraqi Jews with optic atrophy (so-called type 3); and untyped (putative autosomal recessive) forms without identified enzyme defects. In the latter, 3-methylglutaconic aciduria may simply be a marker for another metabolic disorder. We describe a male proband with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria designated here as 'type 4' (autosomal recessive, with severe psychomotor phenotype and cerebellar dysgenesis). He is the offspring of Italian consanguineous parents. Born with congenital malformations, he has been followed for 18 years, showing profound developmental delay and cerebellar dysgenesis. Measures of hydratase activity in cultured fibroblasts from the proband and 11 additional patients (two with type 1 disease, 9 with either type 2 or an unspecified form) revealed deficient enzyme activity in type 1 cases and normal activity in the proband and the other 11 cases. Two of the untyped cases probably have 3-methylglutaconic aciduria of the type described here. Prenatal diagnosis in the form described here may be feasible by analysis of amniotic fluid metabolites in pregnancies at risk if the mother does not entirely remove elevated concentrations. A female sibling of the proband had normal metabolite values in amniotic fluid. Postnatal follow-up confirmed absence of the disease. We give the normal values for amniotic fluid and results on these additional fetuses at risk (none affected).
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- D Chitayat
- De Belle Laboratory for Biochemical Genetics, Montreal Children's Hospital, Quebec, Canada
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Kelley RI, Cheatham JP, Clark BJ, Nigro MA, Powell BR, Sherwood GW, Sladky JT, Swisher WP. X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy with neutropenia, growth retardation, and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. J Pediatr 1991; 119:738-47. [PMID: 1719174 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80289-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Seven boys with an apparently X-linked syndrome of dilated cardiomyopathy, growth retardation, neutropenia, and persistently elevated urinary levels of 3-methylglutaconate, 3-methylglutarate, and 2-ethylhydracrylate were studied. The natural history of the disorder was characterized by severe or lethal cardiac disease and recurrent infections during infancy and early childhood but relative improvement in later childhood. The initial presentation of the syndrome varied from congenital dilated cardiomyopathy to infantile congestive heart failure to isolated neutropenia without clinical evidence of heart disease. The excretion of 3-methylglutaconate and 3-methylglutarate appeared to be independent of the metabolism of leucine, the presumed precursor of these organic acids in humans. Although the cause of the organic aciduria remains obscure, the constellation of biochemical and clinical abnormalities forms a distinct syndrome that may be a relatively common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy or neutropenia in boys during infancy and childhood.
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- R I Kelley
- Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Organic acidemias are disorders of intermediary metabolism that lead to accumulation of organic acids in biologic fluids, disturb acid-base balance, and derange intracellular biochemical pathways. Their clinical presentation reflects the resultant systemic disease and progressive encephalopathy. While in some organic acidemias, disturbed acid-base metabolism is the predominant presenting feature, in others it is less prominent or even absent. The etiologies of the more than 50 different phenotypes include impaired metabolism of branched-chain amino acids, vitamins, glucose, lipids, glutathione, and gamma-aminobutyric acid and defects of oxidative phosphorylation. Most organic acidemias present with neurologic manifestations, which include acutely or subacutely progressive encephalopathy that involves different parts of the nervous system. The age of presentation and the associated systemic, hematologic, and immune findings provide additional guidelines for differential diagnosis. We summarize major organic acidemias, while emphasizing their usual and unusual neurologic presentations.
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- P T Ozand
- Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Gibson KM, Sherwood WG, Hoffman GF, Stumpf DA, Dianzani I, Schutgens RB, Barth PG, Weismann U, Bachmann C, Schrynemackers-Pitance P. Phenotypic heterogeneity in the syndromes of 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. J Pediatr 1991; 118:885-90. [PMID: 1710267 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)82199-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Combined 3-methylglutaconic and 3-methylglutaric aciduria, one of the more common urinary organic acid abnormalities, has been observed in at least three clinical syndromes. We studied an additional seven patients with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, four of whom were best categorized as having the type II syndrome, two as having an "unspecified" syndrome, and one who may have had a primary urea cycle defect. In cultured cells and autopsy tissues derived from patients with the type II and unspecified syndromes, we were unsuccessful in identifying a defect in the leucine degradative pathway distal to 3-methylcrotonyl-coenzyme A carboxylase and in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway between 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase and diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase. Further assessment of the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway in several patients with one of the two types of disease also provided no defined abnormality. The primary metabolic defects in the type II and unspecified syndromes remain undefined.
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- K M Gibson
- Kimberly H. Courtwright and Joseph W. Summers Metabolic Disease Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75246
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Elpeleg ON, Meiron D, Barash V, Hurwitz Y, Tal I, Amir N. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria with persistent metabolic acidosis and 'uncoupling episodes'. J Inherit Metab Dis 1990; 13:235-6. [PMID: 2116558 DOI: 10.1007/bf01799695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- O N Elpeleg
- Department of Pediatrics and Neuropediatrics, Bikur-Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Largilliere C, Vallee L, Cartigny B, Dubos JP, Gibson KM, Nuyts JP, Farriaux JP. 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria: neonatal onset with lactic acidosis. J Inherit Metab Dis 1989; 12:333-4. [PMID: 2515379 DOI: 10.1007/bf01799230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- C Largilliere
- Service de Clinique Pédiatrique et Génétique Médicale, Lille, France
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