Abstract
We report a patient with lipid-storage myopathy due to multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenation deficiency (MADD). Molecular genetic analysis showed that she was compound heterozygous for mutations in the gene for electron transfer flavoprotein:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETFQO). Despite a good initial response to treatment, she developed respiratory insufficiency at age 14 years and has required long-term overnight ventilation. Thus, MADD is one of the few conditions that can cause a myopathy with weakness of the respiratory muscles out of proportion to the limb muscles.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 671-678 |
ISSN | 0141-8955 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenases
- Adolescent
- Age of Onset
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Complementary
- Electron Transport Complex I
- Electron-Transferring Flavoproteins
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Iron-Sulfur Proteins
- Lipid Metabolism
- Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscular Diseases
- Mutation
- Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors
- Phenotype
- Respiration, Artificial