L-2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria presenting with severe autistic features.

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L-2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria (L-2-HGA) is an autosomal recessive neurometabolic disorder characterized by psychomotor delay, ataxia, macrocephaly and typical neuroradiological findings of subcortical leucoencephalopathy. Recently, the disease causing gene has been discovered (L2HGDH) encoding L-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase. We present a 3-year-old boy with L-2-HGA, who demonstrated macrocephaly, noted already...

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