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Recurrent vomiting and ethylmalonic aciduria associated with rare mutations of the short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2003
Seidel J, Streck S, Bellstedt K, Vianey-Saban C, Pedersen C B, Vockley J, Korall H, Roskos M, Deufel T, Trefz K F, Sewell A C, Kauf E, Zintl F, Lehnert W, Gregersen N
Abstract excerpt
We report identification of short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) deficiency in a 12-year-old boy who suffered from recurrent attacks of vomiting once or twice a year from infancy. Growth and development were normal and there were no muscular symptoms. Metabolic screening was performed during a hospitalization at 8 years of age and revealed an increased excretion of ethylmalonic acid (EMA; 45-80 mmol/mol...
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