Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Inborn Errors of Metabolism with Myopathy: Defects of Fatty Acid Oxidation and the Carnitine Shuttle System.


ABSTRACT: Fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAODs) and carnitine shuttling defects are inborn errors of energy metabolism with associated mortality and morbidity due to cardiomyopathy, exercise intolerance, rhabdomyolysis, and liver disease with physiologic stress. Hypoglycemia is characteristically hypoketotic. Lactic acidemia and hyperammonemia may occur during decompensation. Recurrent rhabdomyolysis is debilitating. Expanded newborn screening can detect most of these disorders, allowing early, presymptomatic treatment. Treatment includes avoiding fasting and sustained extraneous exercise and providing high-calorie hydration during illness to prevent lipolysis, and medium-chain triglyceride oil supplementation in long-chain FAODs. Carnitine supplementation may be helpful. However, conventional treatment does not prevent all symptoms.

SUBMITTER: El-Gharbawy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566095 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Inborn Errors of Metabolism with Myopathy: Defects of Fatty Acid Oxidation and the Carnitine Shuttle System.

El-Gharbawy Areeg A   Vockley Jerry J  

Pediatric clinics of North America 20171228 2


Fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAODs) and carnitine shuttling defects are inborn errors of energy metabolism with associated mortality and morbidity due to cardiomyopathy, exercise intolerance, rhabdomyolysis, and liver disease with physiologic stress. Hypoglycemia is characteristically hypoketotic. Lactic acidemia and hyperammonemia may occur during decompensation. Recurrent rhabdomyolysis is debilitating. Expanded newborn screening can detect most of these disorders, allowing early, presympto  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC6208583 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC10915440 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3040279 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8742636 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7078983 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5959979 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC1852094 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4749429 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC4967041 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4000315 | biostudies-literature