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Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency: early diagnosis and management of a new case.

Abstract
We present a new case of holocarboxylase synthetase (HCS) deficiency, a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder, causing the "early-onset" form of multiple carboxylase deficiency. The patient was born at term of healthy consanguineous parents after an uncomplicated pregnancy. On the 2nd day of life she refused oral feeding, became tachydyspnoeic and showed excessive weight loss. Laboratory studies showed metabolic acidosis, marked lactic acidaemia, hyperammonaemia and increased urinary excretion of 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid, 3-methylcrotonylglycine, 3-hydroxpropionic acid and methylcitric acid. Peritoneal dialysis combined with oral supplementation of biotin (10 mg/day) started on the 3rd day of life resulted in rapid clinical recovery and normalisation of biochemical parameters. HCS deficiency was established in lymphocytes and skin fibroblasts. The activities of all biotin-dependent carboxylases were severely decreased in fibroblasts grown in medium with moderate biotin concentration (10(-8) mol/l) but normal in a high biotin medium (10(-5) mol/l). Mitochondrial carboxylase activities in lymphocytes were 23%-29% of mean normal during therapy with 20 mg of biotin/day, with the higher dose of 40 mg/day they were within (3-methylcrotoryl-CoA carboxylase, pyruvate carboxylase) or slightly below (propionyl-CoA carboxylase) the normal range. At the age of 3 years the patient's physical and psychomotor development are normal. Early biotin supplementation should be considered in newborns with lactic acidosis and organoaciduria until a final diagnosis has been established. Furthermore, the required individual dose of biotin has to be carefully evaluated biochemically for the individual patient.
AuthorsA Fuchshuber, T Suormala, B Roth, M Duran, D Michalk, E R Baumgartner
JournalEuropean journal of pediatrics (Eur J Pediatr) Vol. 152 Issue 5 Pg. 446-9 (May 1993) ISSN: 0340-6199 [Print] Germany
PMID8319716 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Biotin
  • Ligases
  • Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases
  • holocarboxylase synthetases
Topics
  • Biotin (therapeutic use)
  • Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Ligases (deficiency)
  • Metabolism, Inborn Errors (diagnosis, enzymology, therapy)
  • Peritoneal Dialysis

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