Long-term follow-up and adult outcome of 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency.

Abstract

Little information is available on the long-term course and adult outcome of patients with 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase (PTPS) deficiency. We describe the course of a 32-year-old woman with hypotonia, dystonia, choreoathetosis, mental retardation, behavioral disturbances, and incomplete puberty due to PTPS deficiency. From the age of 6 months she developed progressive hypotonia and choreoathtetoid movements despite good control of hyperphenylalaninemia. Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency was diagnosed at age 3 years. She had a dramatic response to L-dopa, which persisted at a stable dose for 29 years. Reducing the L-dopa dose led to severe axial hypotonia and limb dystonia, and increasing it led to florid abnormal movements and behavioral disorders. This report illustrates the role of dopamine modulation in motor, psychiatric, and endocrine functions.

• Authors: Emmanuel Roze, Marie Vidailhet, Nenad Blau, Lisbeth Birk Moller, Diane Doummar, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Anne Roubergue
• Journal: Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society (Mov Disord) Vol. 21 Issue 2 Pg. 263-6 (Feb 2006) ISSN: 0885-3185 [Print] United States
• PMID: 16161143 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005 Movement Disorder Society.

Chemical References

• Antiparkinson Agents
• Pterins
• Levodopa
• dyspropterin
• Phosphorus-Oxygen Lyases
• 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Antiparkinson Agents (therapeutic use)
• Athetosis (diagnosis, drug therapy, enzymology)
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Chorea (diagnosis, drug therapy, enzymology)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Dystonia (diagnosis, drug therapy, enzymology)
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant, Newborn
• Levodopa (therapeutic use)
• Long-Term Care
• Muscle Hypotonia (diagnosis, drug therapy, enzymology)
• Neurologic Examination
• Phenylketonurias (diagnosis, drug therapy, enzymology)
• Phosphorus-Oxygen Lyases (deficiency)
• Pterins (metabolism)
• Treatment Outcome