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Neonatal metabolic myopathies.

Abstract
The primary presentations of neuromuscular disease in the newborn period are hypotonia and weakness. Although metabolic myopathies are inherited disorders that present from birth and may present with subtle to marked neonatal hypotonia, a number of these defects are diagnosed classically in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. Disorders of glycogen, lipid, or mitochondrial metabolism may cause three main clinical syndromes in muscle, namely, (1) progressive weakness with hypotonia (e.g., acid maltase, debrancher enzyme, and brancher enzyme deficiencies among the glycogenoses; carnitine uptake and carnitine acylcarnitine translocase defects among the fatty acid oxidation (FAO) defects; and cytochrome oxidase deficiency among the mitochondrial disorders) or (2) acute, recurrent, reversible muscle dysfunction with exercise intolerance and acute muscle breakdown or myoglobinuria (with or without cramps), e.g., phosphorylase, phosphofructokinase, and phosphoglycerate kinase among the glycogenoses and carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency among the disorders of FAO or (3) both (e.g., long-chain or very long-chain acyl coenzyme A (CoA) dehydrogenase, short-chain L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, and trifunctional protein deficiencies among the FAO defects). Episodes of exercise-induced myoglobinuria tend to present in later childhood or adolescence; however, myoglobinuria in the first year of life may occur in FAO disorders during catabolic crises precipitated by fasting or infection. The following is a survey of genetic disorders of glycogen and lipid metabolism resulting in myopathy, focusing primarily on those defects, to date, that have presented in the neonatal or early infancy period. Disorders of mitochondrial metabolism are discussed in another chapter.
AuthorsI Tein
JournalSeminars in perinatology (Semin Perinatol) Vol. 23 Issue 2 Pg. 125-51 (Apr 1999) ISSN: 0146-0005 [Print] United States
PMID10331465 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)
Chemical References
  • Fatty Acids
  • Glycogen
Topics
  • Fatty Acids (metabolism)
  • Glycogen (metabolism)
  • Glycolysis
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Metabolism, Inborn Errors (diagnosis, genetics)
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies
  • Muscle, Skeletal (metabolism)
  • Muscular Diseases (diagnosis, genetics)

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