Article
Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and gigantism syndrome.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Jul 1997
Skyllouriotis M L, Marx M, Bittner R E, Skyllouriotis P, Gross M, Wimmer M
Abstract excerpt
We report a 20-year-old man with gigantism syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, muscle weakness, exercise intolerance, and severe psychomotor retardation since childhood. Histochemical and biochemical analysis of skeletal muscle biopsy revealed myoadenylate deaminase deficiency; molecular genet...
Topics
- AMP Deaminase
- Adenosine Diphosphate
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Adult
- Biopsy
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Carnitine
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Gigantism
- Humans
- Inosine Monophosphate
- Male
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Phenotype
- Purine-Pyrimidine Metabolism, Inborn Errors
