Article
Congenital cataract, muscular hypotonia, developmental delay and sensorineural hearing loss associated with a defect in copper metabolism.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2005
Horváth R, Freisinger P, Rubio R, Merl T, Bax R, Mayr J A, Shawan, Müller-Höcker J, Pongratz D, Moller L B, Horn N, Jaksch M
Abstract excerpt
Deficiencies of different proteins involved in copper metabolism have been reported to cause human diseases. Well-known syndromes, for example, are Menkes and Wilson diseases. Here we report a patient presenting with congenital cataract, severe muscular hypotonia, developmental delay, sensorineural hearing loss and cytochrome-c oxidase deficiency with repeatedly low copper and ceruloplasmin levels. These findings...
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