Abstract：
:We report sibling cases of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, which is a very rare congenital metabolic disorder. These patients were born to healthy and non-consanguineous parents, and presented oculogyric crises, paroxysmal dystonic attacks, and severe psychomotor retardation since early infancy. In cerebrospinal fluid the levels of homovanilic acid and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid were very low and the level of L-dopa was very high. The diagnosis was confirmed by the lack of AADC activity in plasma, and a point mutation in the AADC gene. MRI revealed a slightly small volume of the prefrontal areas and normal myelination in both patients. Positron emission tomography using 2-deoxy-2[(18)F] fluoro-D-glucose was performed in one patient, which revealed hypometabolism in the prefrontal cortex and bilateral basal ganglia with a little laterality. These findings suggested that the severe dystonic features were caused by abnormal function of bilateral basal ganglia and severe psychomotor retardation could be due to abnormalities in prefrontal cortical activity.
journal_name
Brain Devjournal_title
Brain & developmentauthors
Ide S,Sasaki M,Kato M,Shiihara T,Kinoshita S,Takahashi JY,Goto Ydoi
10.1016/j.braindev.2009.05.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-06-01 00:00:00pages
506-10issue
6eissn
0387-7604issn
1872-7131pii
S0387-7604(09)00165-Xjournal_volume
32pub_type
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