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Spastic diplegia and periventricular white matter abnormalities in 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, a defect of isoleucine metabolism: differential diagnosis with hypoxic-ischemic brain diseases.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Apr 2004
Poll-The Bwee Tien, Wanders Ronald J A, Ruiter Jos P N, Ofman Rob, Majoie Charles B L M, Barth Peter G, Duran Marinus
Abstract excerpt
A 19-month-old boy with 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (MHBD) deficiency, a defect of isoleucine degradation, had cognitive and motor development delay, spastic diplegia, dysmorphism, and occipital periventricular white matter lesions on MRI scan of the brain. The urinary accumulation of the isoleucine metabolites 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyrate and tiglylglycine was only moderate under basal conditions....
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