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What is the most common aminoacidopathy?

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phenyketonuria

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What is the inheritance of phenylketonuria?

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AR

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What are hallmark exam findings in PKU? How is it treated?

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fair skinned blue eyed kid with musty odor

limit phenylalanine consumption

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The aminoacidopathies are generally inherited in _____ fashion.

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AR

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What is the inheritance of homocystinuria?

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AR

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What is the deficient enzyme in PKU?

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phenylalanine hydroxylase

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What is the deficient enzyme in homocystinuria?

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cystathionine B-synthase

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What is the symptomatology of homocystinuiria?

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similar to Marfan’s syndrome, but with mental retardation and increased incidence of stroke, lens dislocations, and arachnodactyly

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What is a key finding in maple syrup urine disease?

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burned sugar smell in the urine

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What’s the inheritance of maple syrup urine disease?

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AR

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What is the deficient enzyme in maple syrup urine disease?

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branched chain a-keto acid dehydrogenase

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What is Hartnup disease?

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aminoacidopathy, cannot absorb neutral amino acids

develop Niacin deficiency with pellegra like symptoms

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The sphingolipidoses are inherited in ______ fashion except for ____, which is _____.

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AR

Fabry, XR

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

Nieman Pick

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Sphingomyelinase

Sphingomyelin

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

Gaucher

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Glucocerebrosidase

Glucocerebreside

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

Fabry

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a-galactosidase

ceramides

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

Tay Sachs

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Hexosaminadase A

GM2 gangliosides

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

Sandhoff

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Hexosaminidase A and B

GM2 gangliosides

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What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:

GM1 gangliosidosis

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B-galactosidase

GM1 gangliosides

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Which sphingolipidoses cause cherry red spots?

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Niemann Pick
Tay Sachs
GM1 Gangliosidosis
Gaucher

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Which sphingolipidoses affect Ashkenazi Jews?

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Niemann Pick

Tay Sachs

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What are key findings in Niemann Pick?

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cherry red spot, vertical gaze palsy, MR, hepatosplenomegaly

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What are Niemann Pick cells?

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foamy cells; large vacuolated histiocytes and lymphocytes

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What is the most frequent sphingolipidosis?

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Gaucher

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What are Gaucher cells?
wrinkled tissue paper appearing cells
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What are key findings in Gaucher disease?
hypersplenism with anemia and thrombocytopenia
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What are key findings in Fabry disease?
painful dysesthesias, vascular disease (Htn, renal, death by MI or stroke in adulthood)
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What are key findings in Tay Sachs disease?
MACROcephaly, cherry red spot (NO organomegaly)
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What are clinical findings in Sandhoff disease?
similar to tay sachs but has visceral storage
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What are key findings in GM1 gangliosidase?
dysmorphic face, cherry red spot, hepatosplenomegaly, bone abnormalities
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Mucopolysaccharidoses are all _______ inheritance except _____ which is _____.
AR Hunter, XR
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Hurler
a-L-iduronidase Heparan and dermatan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Scheie
a-L-iduronidase Heparan and dermatan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Hunter
iduronidase sulfatase Heparan and dermatan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: San filippo
Sulfamidase Heparan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Morquio
B galactosidase Keratin
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Maroteaux Lamy
Sulfatase B Dermatan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Sly
B-glucoronidase Heparan and Dermatan
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What are key features of Hurler's disease?
gargoyle face, MR, dwarfism, corneal clouding, skeletal abnormalities, thick meninges (can cause spinal cord compression)
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What are Zebra bodies?
seen on electron microscopy with Hurler's disease
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What are key features of Scheie?
milder Hurler, no MR
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What are key features of Hunter?
milder Hurlery, no MR and less corneal clouding; classic skin pebbling and peripheral nerve entrapment (Carpel tunnel)
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Which MPS has the most severe skeletal deformities and ligamentous laxity?
Morquio
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Which MPS can have carpel tunnel syndrome?
Hunter, Scheie, Maroteaux Lamy
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Which MPS classically has hydrocephalus?
Sly
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The leukodystrophies are all _____ inheritance except for _____ which are ____ and _____ which is ____.
AR Adrenoleukodystrophy and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, XR Alexander, sporadic
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Which leukodystrophy is associated with Ashkenazi Jews?
Canavan
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What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Krabbe
galactocerebroside β-galactosidase galactocerebroside
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What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Metachromatic leukodystrophy
arylsulfatase A sulfatides
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What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Adrenoleukodystrophy?
ABCD 1 long chain fatty acids
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Leukodystrophies have cavitation or degeneration of ______ but spare _____ except for ______ which preferentially targets them.
white matter subcortical U fibers Canavan
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Which leukodystrophy is associated with adrenal insufficiency and bronze skin?
adrenoleukodystrophy
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What CT finding is unique to Krabbe disease?
hyperdense basal ganglia and thalamus
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What is seen on histology for Krabbe disease?
Globoid cells; large macrophages around blood vessels
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What is the treatment in adrenoleukodystrophy?
Lorenzo oil and diet low in long chain fatty acids
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Which leukodystrophy has a Tigeroid pattern on MRI?
Pelizaeus Merzbacher
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Alzheimer type II astrocytes are seen in what leukodystrophy?
Canavan
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What are the key clinical features of MELAS?
encephalopathy, lacitc acidosis, stroke like episodes with cortical blindnesss
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What are the key clinical features with MERRF?
myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers on muscle biopsy
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How is Kearns Sayre syndrome inherited?
mitochondrial
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Which mitochondrial diseases have ragged red fibers on muscle biopsy?
MERRF and Kearns Sayre
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What are key clinical findings in Kearns Sayre?
cardiomyopathy and ophthalmoplegia/retinal issues
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What is the inheritance of Lebers hereditary optic neuropathy?
mitochondrial
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What are the key clinical findings in levers hereditary optic neuropathy?
progressive painless loss of central visiosn
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What is the inheritance of Menke Kinky hair disease?
XR
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Menke kinky hair disease is due to a defect in ____ causing decrease in _____.
Copper transporting ATPase GI absorption of copper
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What are the key clinical features of Menke Kinky hair disease?
tortuous vessels, metaphysial spurring, brittle colorless hair growth, seizures, MR
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What is the inheritance of Leigh disease?
AR
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What is the deficient enzyme in leigh disease?
cytochrome C oxidase
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Leigh disease results in ______ leading to diffuse neurologic deficits such as _____.
bilateral symmetric spongiform degeneration and necrosis of the thalamus, basal ganglia, brainstem, and spinal cord with peripheral nerve demyelination decreased muscle tone and head control, seizures, myoclonus, ophthalmoplegia, and respiratory and swallowing problems
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What's another name for Lowe syndrome? How is it inherited?
XR oculocerebrorenal syndrome (cataracts, MR, death by renal failure)
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What is the inheritance of Lesch-nyhan syndrome? What is the deficient enzyme? What are its key clinical features?
XR HGPRT accumulation of uric acid leading to choreoathetosis and self mutilation
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What is Zellweger syndrome? What's another name for it?
XR Cererbrohepatorenal syndrome (cortical dysgensis, hepatorenal failure)

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