ADSL Deficiency - The Lesser-Known Metabolic Epilepsy in Infancy

Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is a rare inherited disorder of purine metabolism causing severe neurological impairment ranging from early-onset neonatal epileptic encephalopathy to progressive psychomotor retardation and autism in later life. Diagnostic workup involves the measurement of toxic succinyl purines in body fluids and gene sequencing. The authors describe a 13-mo-old girl with compound heterozygous variants in the ADSL gene, presenting as early-onset seizures, severe neurological impairment, development delay, and hypotonia. Neuroimaging revealed cerebral atrophy, delayed myelination and diffusion restriction in bilateral basal ganglia, thalamus and periventricular white matter. The present case highlights ADSL deficiency as a rare cause of metabolic epilepsy that needs timely recognition and prevention of unnecessary investigations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:88

Enthalten in:

Indian journal of pediatrics - 88(2021), 3 vom: 17. März, Seite 263-265

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Banerjee, Arundhati [VerfasserIn]
Bhatia, Vikas [VerfasserIn]
Didwal, Gunjan [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Arvind Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Saini, Arushi Gahlot [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Adenylosuccinate Lyase
Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency
Case Reports
EC 4.3.2.2
Encephalopathy
Epilepsy
IEM
Journal Article
Metabolic epilepsy

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.05.2021

Date Revised 25.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12098-020-03435-4

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312577524