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  3. Proposed recommendations for diagnosing and managing individuals with glutaric aciduria type I: second revision

Proposed recommendations for diagnosing and managing individuals with glutaric aciduria type I: second revision

  • J Inherit Metab Dis. 2017 Jan;40(1):75-101. doi: 10.1007/s10545-016-9999-9.
Nikolas Boy 1,  Chris Mühlhausen 2,  Esther M Maier 3,  Jana Heringer 4,  Birgit Assmann 4,  Peter Burgard 4,  Marjorie Dixon 5,  Sandra Fleissner 3,  Cheryl R Greenberg 6 7,  Inga Harting 4 8,  Georg F Hoffmann 4,  Daniela Karall 9,  David M Koeller 10,  Michael B Krawinkel 11,  Jürgen G Okun 4,  Thomas Opladen 4,  Roland Posset 4,  Katja Sahm 4,  Johannes Zschocke 12,  Stefan Kölker 4,  Additional individual contributors
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine, Department of General Paediatrics, Division of Neuropaediatrics and Metabolic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 430, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany. Nikolas.Boy@med.uni-heidelberg.de.
  • 2 University Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, D-20246, Hamburg, Germany.
  • 3 Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany.
  • 4 Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine, Department of General Paediatrics, Division of Neuropaediatrics and Metabolic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 430, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 5 Dietetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • 6 Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Health Sciences Centre and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3A 1R9, Canada.
  • 7 Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Children's Hospital Health Sciences Centre and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3A 1R9, Canada.
  • 8 Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 9 Clinic for Paediatrics I, Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Medical, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • 10 Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
  • 11 Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Nutritional Science, Giessen, Germany.
  • 12 Division of Human Genetics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
PMID: 27853989 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-016-9999-9
Abstract

Glutaric aciduria type I (GA-I; synonym, glutaric acidemia type I) is a rare inherited Metabolic Disease caused by deficiency of glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase located in the catabolic pathways of L-lysine, L-hydroxylysine, and L-tryptophan. The enzymatic defect results in elevated concentrations of glutaric acid, 3-hydroxyglutaric acid, glutaconic acid, and glutaryl carnitine in body tissues, which can be reliably detected by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (organic acids) and tandem mass spectrometry (acylcarnitines). Most untreated individuals with GA-I experience acute encephalopathic crises during the first 6 years of life that are triggered by infectious diseases, febrile reaction to vaccinations, and surgery. These crises result in striatal injury and consequent dystonic movement disorder; thus, significant mortality and morbidity results. In some patients, neurologic disease may also develop without clinically apparent crises at any age. Neonatal screening for GA-I us being used in a growing number of countries worldwide and is cost effective. Metabolic treatment, consisting of low lysine diet, carnitine supplementation, and intensified emergency treatment during catabolism, is effective treatment and improves neurologic outcome in those individuals diagnosed early; treatment after symptom onset, however, is less effective. Dietary treatment is relaxed after age 6 years and should be supervised by specialized metabolic centers. The major aim of this second revision of proposed recommendations is to re-evaluate the previous recommendations (Kölker et al. J Inherit Metab Dis 30:5-22, 2007b; J Inherit Metab Dis 34:677-694, 2011) and add new research findings, relevant clinical aspects, and the perspective of affected individuals.

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