Article
An atypical French form of pyruvate carboxylase deficiency.
Brain & development - 1 Jan 2000
Pineda M, Campistol J, Vilaseca M A, Briones P, Ribes A, Temudo T, Pons M, Cusi V, Rolland M O
Abstract excerpt
A further case of pyruvate carboxylase deficiency, French type, with a particular clinical presentation and evolution is described. The initial neonatal symptoms started with respiratory distress, severe metabolic acidosis and a tendency to hypoglycemia. However, the clinical course was not rapidly deteriorating. At the age of 6 months he presented acute neurological symptoms, respiratory difficulty, lactic...
Topics
- Amino Acids
- Brain
- France
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Phenotype
- Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency Disease
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
