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Methylmalonic aciduria with homocystinuria: biochemical studies, treatment, and clinical course of a Cbl-C patient.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Mar 1990
Ribes A, Briones P, Vilaseca M A, Lluch M, Rodes M, Maya A, Campistol J, Pascual P, Suormala T, Baumgartner R
Abstract excerpt
A patient with infantile onset methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria (Cbl-C mutant) is described. Therapy with hydroxycobalamin, folate and vitamin B6 improved his condition. As hypomethioninaemia and homocystinaemia persisted, he was treated with intramuscular methylcobalamin, but without success. Treatment with betaine started at 25 months of age, normalized plasma methionine and elicited disappearance of...
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