Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Cohort of Glycogen Storage Disease Type I Patients in a High Complexity Hospital in Argentina

Abstract Glycogen storage disease type I is an autosomal recessive disorder of carbohydrate metabolism that manifests mainly by hepatomegaly and hypoglycemia with short fasts. Despite strict therapy, patients present long-term renal and liver complications. Data of 36 patients,29 GSD Ia and 7 Ib from a high complexity Hospital in Argentina was collected retrospectively. Collected data included diagnosis, anthropometric, biochemical parameters, therapy and follow-up. Treatment increased Height SDS (p=0.012). Patients with good adherence to therapy presented better growth parameters (p=0.049). Instead, admissions were detrimental (p =0.031) and were more common in Ib patients (p=0.002). The early appearance of complications (liver adenomas and nephropathy) was related to sustained triglyceride values > 500mg / dl (p=0.009 and 0.046 respectively). With intensive dietary treatment, clinical and biochemical status improves but cannot be completely corrected in most patients. Growth improves with treatment and this is optimized with adequate adherence. We must take into account that with ageing, more complications will develop.

La importancia de una ley a tiempo: Presentación de un caso de deficiencia de biotinidasa no diagnosticado por pesquisa neonatal / The importance of a law on time: presentation of a girl with biotinidase deficiency who was not picked up through the neonatal screening

En agosto de 2008, la Provincia de Buenos Aires no había adherido a la Ley Nacional 26279, que establece la obligatoriedad de la pesquisa neonatal para la deficiencia de biotinidasa, entre otras enfermedades. En esa fecha, nace en la Provinciade Buenos Aires una niña que derivan desde una terapia intensiva pediátrica al Hospital Nacional de Pediatría Dr. Prof. J. P. Garrahan, a los 58 días de vida, por alteración del sensorio, acidosis metabólica, hiperlacticoacidemia, alopecia, conjuntivitis y erupción cutánea eritematosa escaldada. Por estaclínica (de 13 días de evolución) se mide la actividad plasmática de biotinidasa, que resultó baja. Se inicia tratamiento con biotina y revierten rápidamente las alteraciones bioquímicas que presentaba. Si se hubiera hecho la pesquisa neonatal, estaniña no hubiera estado expuesta a riesgo de muerte por la enfermedad y se hubiese asegurado (por el inicio presintomático del tratamiento), un desarrollo normal, ya que las lesiones neurológicas no siempre retrogradan o no lo hacen ad integrum.