Assessment of homocysteine status.

abstract：:The differential diagnosis of patients with apparent congenital lactic acidoses poses one of the most intractable problems in the study of patients with disorders of organic acid metabolism. An outline of the factors leading to a lactic acidosis, particularly in infants and young children, together with a brief review...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Chalmers RA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis and improved treatment are leading to the potential for increased reproductive capability in homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta-synthase (CbetaS) deficiency, but information about reproductive outcome and risk of thromboembolism in pregnancy is limited. To provide further information, clinical an...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Levy HL,Vargas JE,Waisbren SE,Kurczynski TW,Roeder ER,Schwartz RS,Rosengren S,Prasad C,Greenberg CR,Gilfix BM,MacGregor D,Shih VE,Bao L,Kraus JP

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current available evidence on long-term effectiveness of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for Fabry disease is limited. More insight is needed whether ERT effectiveness differs in patients with and without baseline end-organ damage. DESIGN:Through a systematic review, untreated and ERT treated males and fema...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Rombach SM,Smid BE,Linthorst GE,Dijkgraaf MG,Hollak CE

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are a group of lysosomal storage diseases caused by mutations in lysosomal enzymes involved in degradation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Patients with MPS grow poorly and become physically disabled due to systemic bone disease. While many of the major skeletal effects in mouse models for MP...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Rowan DJ,Tomatsu S,Grubb JH,Montaño AM,Sly WS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular lesions, including coronary artery stenosis, are frequently associated and can cause sudden death in patients with genetic defects of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) metabolism. Early diagnosis of coronary artery lesions is difficult, although potentially lifesaving. Histopathological similarities between ather...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Yano S,Moseley K,Wong L,Castelnovi C,Azen C,Pavlova Z

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the incidence of galactosaemia in the state of São Paulo and the benefit/cost (B/C) ratio of the introduction of neonatal screening for galactosaemia, comparing it with a selective approach. METHODS:An enzymatic-colorimetric assay was used for the screening of total galactose (TG) in a sample of 10...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Camelo JS Jr,Fernandes MI,Maciel LM,Scrideli CA,Santos JL,Camargo AS Jr,Passador CS,Leite PC,Resende DR,de Souza LO,Giugliani R,Jorge SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, there have not been any confirmed reports of beta-mannosidase deficiency in man. We have now analysed urine from two patients with confirmed beta-mannosidase deficiency and have found Man-beta(1-4)GlcNAc concentrations of 65 and 73 mg/mmol creatinine. These levels are at least 12 times higher than thos...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tjoa S,Wenger DA,Fennessey PV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports three novel mutations of the methionine adenosyltransferase (MAT) lA gene and confirms that hyperhomocysteinaemia may be a characteristic finding in MAT I/III deficiency. Thus, MAT I/III deficiency is important in the differential diagnoses of hyperhomocysteinaemia, which may lead to clinical compli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Linnebank M,Lagler F,Muntau AC,Röschinger W,Olgemöller B,Fowler B,Koch HG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease is an X-linked inherited lysosomal storage disorder caused by an inborn deficiency of the enzyme α-galactosidase A. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with agalsidase alpha or beta isozymes is an effective treatment. Cross-reactivity of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies with agalsidase alpha and beta has b...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tanaka A,Takeda T,Hoshina T,Fukai K,Yamano T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine palmitoyltransferase type I (CPT I) is unique among long-chain fatty acid oxidation enzymes in that there are two tissue-specific isoforms, 'hepatic' and 'muscle', which are encoded by two separate genes. The 'hepatic' isoform is expressed in liver, kidney and fibroblasts and at low levels in the heart, whil...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Olpin SE,Allen J,Bonham JR,Clark S,Clayton PT,Calvin J,Downing M,Ives K,Jones S,Manning NJ,Pollitt RJ,Standing SJ,Tanner MS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonate (MMA) accumulates in the tissues of patients with methylmalonic acidaemia, who present severe neurological signs soon after birth and later mental retardation. Attempting to understand the pathophysiology of the disorder, we investigated the effects of MMA on brain glucose uptake, lactate release and CO...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wajner M,Dutra JC,Cardoso SE,Wannmacher CM,Motta ER

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to describe neurological phenotypes associated with lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs), focusing on features arising from primary neuronal involvement. Clinical presentation, progression and genetic data, are discussed in detail in Part 2, the electronic material. Main features are summari...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jardim LB,Villanueva MM,de Souza CF,Netto CB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a human dihydropteridine reductase (DHPR) cDNA, the frequency of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) with restriction endonucleases AvaII, MspI, NcoI and HinfI was estimated in unrelated, unaffected Japanese. The allele frequencies are different from those found in Caucasians, especially with MspI ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hayasaka K,Narisawa K,Ohura T,Ogawa E,Dahl HH

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:GM2-gangliosidosis B1 variant, considered a rare disorder with a wide geographical and ethnic distribution, appears to be exceptionally frequent in Portugal. In order to establish a carrier detection method for this disease we have determined the ratio of enzymatic activities against 4MUGS and 4MUG in urine from B1 va...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ribeiro MG,Pinto R,Oliveira P,Sá Miranda MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garrod presented his concept of 'the inborn error of metabolism' in the 1908 Croonian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians (London); he used albinism, alkaptonuria, cystinuria and pentosuria to illustrate. His lectures are perceived today as landmarks in the history of biochemistry, genetics and medicine. Garro...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Scriver CR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with MPS II often present with limitations to functional mobility. With the advent of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), robust assessment tools are important to assess response to treatment. The aim of this study was to see if the GAITRite™ system (electronic pressure sensitive walkway) could identify any cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wood M,Cleary MA,Alderson L,Vellodi A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are constantly exposed to sources of agents that directly damage the genetic material. This exposure comes from environmental sources but also from within our own organisms. DNA damage occurs at a high frequency due to metabolic processes and environmental factors such as various exposures and the intake of food an...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Bohr VA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial disease is hugely diverse with respect to associated clinical presentations and underlying genetic causes, with pathogenic variants in over 300 disease genes currently described. Approximately half of these have been discovered in the last decade due to the increasingly widespread application of next gen...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Thompson K,Collier JJ,Glasgow RIC,Robertson FM,Pyle A,Blakely EL,Alston CL,Oláhová M,McFarland R,Taylor RW

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spastic paraparesis is a general term describing progressive stiffness and weakness in the lower limbs caused by pyramidal tract lesions. This clinical situation is frequently encountered in adult neurology. The diagnostic survey is usually limited to searching for acquired causes (spinal cord compression, inflammator...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sedel F,Fontaine B,Saudubray JM,Lyon-Caen O

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This report describes the clinical, biochemical and molecular data of a 78-year-old patient with xanthine dehydrogenase deficiency presenting as rheumatoid arthritis. BACKGROUND:Xanthinuria type I is a rare disorder of purine metabolism caused by xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) deficiency; fewer than 150 cases...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jurecka A,Stiburkova B,Krijt J,Gradowska W,Tylki-Szymanska A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical problems, dietary management and biochemical monitoring over a 40-year period of the longest-surviving patient with maple syrup urine disease are described. Her case illustrates that a good outcome can be obtained with early diagnosis and institution of a diet restricted in branched-chain amino acids. Cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： le Roux C,Murphy E,Lilburn M,Lee PJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing loss and tinnitus are common symptoms in Fabry disease and increase in prevalence with age. This study aimed to provide an epidemiological description of hearing impairment and tinnitus in children with Fabry disease in the Fabry Outcome Survey (FOS), an international database to assess the natural h...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Keilmann A,Hajioff D,Ramaswami U,FOS Investigators.

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：:High lactate concentrations occur in type I glycogen storage disease (GSD) whenever glycogenolysis occurs. Not only does hyperlactataemia cause acute clinical deterioration, but chronic lactate elevations have also been associated with many of the long-term complications in GSD. A portable finger-stick blood lactate m...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Saunders AC,Feldman HA,Correia CE,Weinstein DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid composition or the liver, spleen, brain, cerebellum and cerebrospinal fluid of a Gaucher disease type II patient who died at the age of 5 months was examined. The glycolipid analysis demonstrated a marked increase of total amounts not only in the peripheral tissues but also in the brain cerebellum and cerebr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Gornati R,Berra B,Montorfano G,Martini C,Ciana G,Ferrari P,Romano M,Bembi B

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is a neurodegenerative disorder of infancy or childhood generally due to mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial genes involved in mitochondrial energy metabolism. We performed linkage analysis in an Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) family without consanguinity with three affected children. Linkage to microsatellite...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Anderson SL,Chung WK,Frezzo J,Papp JC,Ekstein J,DiMauro S,Rubin BY

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II or Hunter syndrome) is a progressive, multisystemic disease caused by a deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase. Patients with the severe form of the disease have cognitive impairment and typically die in the second decade of life. Patients with the less severe form do not experience ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jones SA,Almássy Z,Beck M,Burt K,Clarke JT,Giugliani R,Hendriksz C,Kroepfl T,Lavery L,Lin SP,Malm G,Ramaswami U,Tincheva R,Wraith JE,HOS Investigators.

更新日期：2009-08-01 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