Elevated plasma chitotriosidase activity in various lysosomal storage disorders.

abstract：:We report studies on two patients (1 and 2) with Hurler disease. They both had all of the non-neurological features of Hurler disease to a similar and extreme degree and similar signs of brain damage on computed tomography. However, intellectual function was unusually well-preserved in patient 1, but seriously and typ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Watts RW,Spellacy E,Adams JH

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analyses have become a major component in the diagnostic work-up of patients; however, limited consideration appears to be given to the possibility that reported results may in fact be wrong. Over the last four years we have carried out an External Quality Assessment scheme for mutation analysis in phenyl...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Zschocke J,Aulehla-Scholz C,Patton S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) caused by mutations in the hydroxymethylbilane synthase gene (HMBS), has been reported in almost all human populations, with varying frequencies. A founder effect for a few specific mutations in geographic regions where prevalence is high (Sweden, The Netherlands, Switzerland) has be...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Paradisi I,Arias S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the very low incidence of atherosclerosis in glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD Ia) subjects might be attributed to elevated levels of uric acid, one of the potent low molecular- weight antioxidants found in plasma. The present communication describes a use of two analytical methods-cycli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Koren E,Lipkin J,Klar A,Hershkovitz E,Ginsburg I,Kohen R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal and neurological complications of abetalipoproteinaemia may be preventable by replacing vitamins A and E from an early age, but their role in adult presentations is less clear. Two adult females with abetalipoproteinaemia have received 8 and 10 years respectively of replacement therapy with vitamins A, E a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： MacGilchrist AJ,Mills PR,Noble M,Foulds WS,Simpson JA,Watkinson G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-nine protein-loading tests were performed in 80 patients with an increased blood phenylalanine concentration. The amount of protein corresponding to 0.18 g phenylalanine/kg body weight per day was calculated and given for 3 days, during which time eight phenylalanine and eight tyrosine blood concentrations were...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lutz P,Schmidt H,Frey G,Bickel H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cobalamin E (cblE) (MTRR, methionine synthase reductase) and cobalamin G (cblG) (MTR, methionine synthase) defects are rare inborn errors of cobalamin metabolism leading to impairment of the remethylation of homocysteine to methionine. METHODS:Information on clinical and laboratory data at initial full ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Huemer M,Bürer C,Ješina P,Kožich V,Landolt MA,Suormala T,Fowler B,Augoustides-Savvopoulou P,Blair E,Brennerova K,Broomfield A,De Meirleir L,Gökcay G,Hennermann J,Jardine P,Koch J,Lorenzl S,Lotz-Havla AS,Noss J,Parin

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a retrospective electron-microscopical study of liver biopsies and fibroblast cultures of 19 patients with congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) of different subtypes. A constant finding in liver biopsies of all CDG-I cases was that of abnormal lysosomal lamellar inclusions in the hepatocytes, which we...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Grünewald S,De Vos R,Jaeken J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latin America includes more than 40 countries and possessions, and its population of 570 million has an important representation of the three main human races. The area is experiencing an economic improvement, progressively bringing the inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) to a higher level among health priorities. Chall...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Giugliani R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transaldolase (TAL) is an enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) that generates NADPH for protection against oxidative stress. While deficiency of other PPP enzymes, such as transketolase (TKT), are incompatible with mammalian cell survival, mice lacking TAL are viable and develop progressive liver disease attr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Oaks Z,Jimah J,Grossman CC,Beckford M,Kelly R,Banerjee S,Niland B,Miklossy G,Kuloglu Z,Kansu A,Lee W,Szonyi L,Banki K,Perl A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NTBC is a triketone with herbicidal activity that has been shown to have a novel mode of action by inhibiting the enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase in plants. Early studies on the toxicity of this compound found that rats treated with NTBC developed corneal lesions. Investigations aimed at understanding the m...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lock EA,Ellis MK,Gaskin P,Robinson M,Auton TR,Provan WM,Smith LL,Prisbylla MP,Mutter LC,Lee DL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents both the neurological and physical outcomes of the first published set of siblings undergoing transplantation at differing ages for α-mannosidosis. The older brother, the index case, was diagnosed at the age of 3 years and underwent transplantation at 13 years for the treatment of increasing som...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Broomfield AA,Chakrapani A,Wraith JE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of copper accumulation leading to liver and/or brain damage. In this paper, we describe the results of a pilot study of screening for WD using ceruloplasmin determinations in dried blood samples. Specimens were collected from children aged 1 to 6 years who were se...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ohura T,Abukawa D,Shiraishi H,Yamaguchi A,Arashima S,Hiyamuta S,Tada K,Iinuma K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmembrane domain recognition complex (TRC) targets cytoplasmic C-terminal tail-anchored (TA) proteins to their respective membranes in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi, and mitochondria. It is composed of three proteins, GET4, BAG6, and GET5. We identified an individual with compound heterozygous missense...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tambe MA,Ng BG,Shimada S,Wolfe LA,Adams DR,Undiagnosed Diseases Network.,Gahl WA,Bamshad MJ,Nickerson DA,Malicdan MCV,Freeze HH

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One major problem of using hypercholesterolaemia alone as a primary criterion for diagnosing familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is that 15-40% of relatives may be misdiagnosed because plasma lipid levels in FH heterozygotes overlap with those in the general population. SETTING:General Hospital/University o...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Widhalm K,Dirisamer A,Lindemayr A,Kostner G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three patients with congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) type Ia, all of whom had persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia responding to diazoxide therapy as a common feature. The first patient, an infant girl, presented with recurrent vomiting, failure to thrive, liver impairment, hypothyroidism a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Shanti B,Silink M,Bhattacharya K,Howard NJ,Carpenter K,Fietz M,Clayton P,Christodoulou J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) is an experimental therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) that reduced neuronal cholesterol and ganglioside storage, reduced Purkinje cell death, and increased lifespan in npc1-/- mice and NPC1 cats. In this study, tissue distribution was investigated in normal cats that...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kao ML,Stellar S,Solon E,Lordi A,Kasica N,Swain G,Bagel JH,Gurda BL,Vite CH

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing loss (HL) is a well-known feature of Fabry disease (FD). Its presence and characteristics have mainly been studied in adult patients, while only limited data are available on the presence and degree of HL in children with FD. This prompted us to study hearing sensitivity in pediatric FD patients. ME...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Suntjens E,Dreschler WA,Hess-Erga J,Skrunes R,Wijburg FA,Linthorst GE,Tøndel C,Biegstraaten M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of lysosomal α-L-iduronidase results in systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Cardiac lesions due to accumulation of GAGs include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, valvular insufficiency/stenosis, and coronary artery stenosis due to intimal proliferation. Cardiac dysfunction is one of the most comm...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Yano S,Moseley K,Pavlova Z

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32 year-old asymptomatic male came to our attention with a 21-year history, documented elsewhere, of puzzling increases in his serum transaminase level. At first, very low serum ceruloplasmin level suggested Wilson disease. Two liver biopsies showed mild portal inflammation, steatosis and mild fibrosis. Further inve...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Calvo PL,Pagliardini S,Baldi M,Pucci A,Sturiale L,Garozzo D,Vinciguerra T,Barbera C,Jaeken J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of coenzyme Q(10) (CoQ(10)) was examined in skin fibroblasts of 10 patients with mevalonic aciduria (MVA) and of 22 patients with methylmalonic aciduria (MMA). Patients with these inborn errors of metabolism are thought to be at risk for CoQ(10) depletion either by direct inhibition of the proximal pathway...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Haas D,Niklowitz P,Hörster F,Baumgartner ER,Prasad C,Rodenburg RJ,Hoffmann GF,Menke T,Okun JG

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic disorders of purine and pyrimidine (PP) metabolism are under-reported and infrequently mentioned in the general literature, as well as in reviews dedicated to other inborn errors of metabolism. Owing to limited awareness, relatively recent recognition, as well as considerable phenotypic variation, these disord...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jurecka A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease is an X-linked glycosphingolipid storage disorder caused by a deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. Affected patients experience debilitating neuropathic pain and have premature mortality due to renal failure, cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular complications. The disease may be X-linked dominant, s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Baehner F,Kampmann C,Whybra C,Miebach E,Wiethoff CM,Beck M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients have been diagnosed with glutaric aciduria type I over a 16-year period in the Republic of Ireland, 11 following clinical presentation and 10 following a high-risk screen. Nineteen have been managed with diet. Eight patients have died, of whom 7 were diagnosed clinically. Six had dystonic and one s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Naughten ER,Mayne PD,Monavari AA,Goodman SI,Sulaiman G,Croke DT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sulphatase deficiency was studied in 3 siblings--one pair of monozygotic twins and their sister. The children's psychomotor development was arrested at the age of 18 to 24 months, and the hypotonic syndrome combined with signs of spasticity appeared. There was marked hepatosplenomegaly, conspicuously dry scal...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Nevsímalová S,Elleder M,Smíd F,Zemánková M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the many disorders of fatty acid beta-oxidation known today, the disorders of long-chain fatty acid oxidation are the most severe and life-threatening. One remarkable abnormality, not observed in, for instance, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, is the moderate to severe lactic acidaemia in long-cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ventura FV,Ruiter JP,IJlst L,de Almeida IT,Wanders RJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and selective analytical technique is described for the determination of N-acetylaspartic acid in body fluids using stable isotope dilution in combination with positive chemical ionization mass spectrometry with selected ion monitoring. Control mean and ranges have been established: in urine 19.5 and 6.6-3...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jakobs C,ten Brink HJ,Langelaar SA,Zee T,Stellaard F,Macek M,Srsnová K,Srsen S,Kleijer WJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on our 6-year experience of expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry in Tuscany (Italy), the first Italian Region to screen all newborns for more than 40 inborn errors of metabolism: organization, diseases observed and updates on methods to reduce false-positive and false-negative tests are des...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： la Marca G,Malvagia S,Casetta B,Pasquini E,Donati MA,Zammarchi E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is an urgent need for reliable and universally applicable outcome measures for children with mitochondrial diseases. In this study, we aimed to adapt the currently available Newcastle Paediatric Mitochondrial Disease Scale (NPMDS) to the International Paediatric Mitochondrial Disease Scale (IPMDS) durin...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Koene S,Hendriks JCM,Dirks I,de Boer L,de Vries MC,Janssen MCH,Smuts I,Fung CW,Wong VCN,de Coo IRFM,Vill K,Stendel C,Klopstock T,Falk MJ,McCormick EM,McFarland R,de Groot IJM,Smeitink JAM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic galactosemia is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficient galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT) activity. Patients develop symptoms in the neonatal period, which can be ameliorated by dietary restriction of galactose. Many patients develop long-term complications, with a broad range of cli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Coelho AI,Ramos R,Gaspar A,Costa C,Oliveira A,Diogo L,Garcia P,Paiva S,Martins E,Teles EL,Rodrigues E,Cardoso MT,Ferreira E,Sequeira S,Leite M,Silva MJ,de Almeida IT,Vicente JB,Rivera I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00