Clinical and molecular basis of hepatocerebral mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome in Japan: Evaluation of outcomes after liver transplantation

Abstract BackgroundHepatocerebral mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MTDPS) is a disease caused by defects in mitochondrial DNA maintenance and leads to liver failure and neurological complications during infancy. Liver transplantation (LT) remains controversial due to poor outcomes associated with extrahepatic symptoms. The purposes of this study were to clarify the current clinical and molecular features of hepatocerebral MTDPS and to evaluate outcomes LT in MTDPS patients in Japan.ResultsWe retrospectively assessed the clinical and genetic findings, as well as the clinical courses, of 23 hepatocerebral MTDPS patients from a pool of 999 patients who were diagnosed with mitochondrial diseases between 2007 and 2019. Causative genes were identified in 20 of 23 patients: MPV17 (n=13), DGUOK (n=4), POLG (n=1), MICOS13 (n=1), and TWNK (n=1). Eight MPV17-deficient patients harbored c.451dupC and all four DGUOK-deficient patients harbored c.143-307_170del335. The most common initial manifestation was failure to thrive (n=13, 56.5%). The most frequent liver symptom was cholestasis (n=21, 91.3%). LT was performed on 11 patients, including eight MPV17-deficient and two DGUOK-deficient patients. Four patients, including one with mild intellectual disability, survived; seven who had remarkable neurological symptoms before LT died. Five of the MPV17-deficient survivors had either c.149G>A or c.293C>T.ConclusionsMPV17 was the most common genetic cause of hepatocerebral MTDPS. The outcome of LT for MTDPS was not favorable, as previously reported, but patients who had MPV17 mutations associated with mild phenotypes such as c.149G>A or c.293C>T and no marked neurologic manifestations before LT, had moderately better outcomes..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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ResearchSquare.com - (2022) vom: 28. Juli Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shimura, Masaru [VerfasserIn]
Kuranobu, Naomi [VerfasserIn]
Ogawa-Tominaga, Minako [VerfasserIn]
Akiyama, Nana [VerfasserIn]
Sugiyama, Yohei [VerfasserIn]
Ebihara, Tomohiro [VerfasserIn]
Fushimi, Takuya [VerfasserIn]
Ichimoto, Keiko [VerfasserIn]
Matsunaga, Ayako [VerfasserIn]
Tsuruoka, Tomoko [VerfasserIn]
Kishita, Yoshihito [VerfasserIn]
Umetsu, Shuichiro [VerfasserIn]
Inui, Ayano [VerfasserIn]
Fujisawa, Tomoo [VerfasserIn]
Tanikawa, Ken [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Reiko [VerfasserIn]
Fukuda, Akinari [VerfasserIn]
Kasahara, Mureo [VerfasserIn]
Murakami, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Kaji, Shunsaku [VerfasserIn]
Shiraki, Kazuo [VerfasserIn]
Ohtake, Akira [VerfasserIn]
Okazaki, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]
Murayama, Kei [VerfasserIn]

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570
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doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-17666/v1

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XRA034108025