Congenital Metobolic Diseases Flashcards
What is the most common aminoacidopathy?
phenyketonuria
What is the inheritance of phenylketonuria?
AR
What are hallmark exam findings in PKU? How is it treated?
fair skinned blue eyed kid with musty odor
limit phenylalanine consumption
The aminoacidopathies are generally inherited in _____ fashion.
AR
What is the inheritance of homocystinuria?
AR
What is the deficient enzyme in PKU?
phenylalanine hydroxylase
What is the deficient enzyme in homocystinuria?
cystathionine B-synthase
What is the symptomatology of homocystinuiria?
similar to Marfan’s syndrome, but with mental retardation and increased incidence of stroke, lens dislocations, and arachnodactyly
What is a key finding in maple syrup urine disease?
burned sugar smell in the urine
What’s the inheritance of maple syrup urine disease?
AR
What is the deficient enzyme in maple syrup urine disease?
branched chain a-keto acid dehydrogenase
What is Hartnup disease?
aminoacidopathy, cannot absorb neutral amino acids
develop Niacin deficiency with pellegra like symptoms
The sphingolipidoses are inherited in ______ fashion except for ____, which is _____.
AR
Fabry, XR
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Nieman Pick
Sphingomyelinase
Sphingomyelin
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Gaucher
Glucocerebrosidase
Glucocerebreside
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Fabry
a-galactosidase
ceramides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Tay Sachs
Hexosaminadase A
GM2 gangliosides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Sandhoff
Hexosaminidase A and B
GM2 gangliosides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
GM1 gangliosidosis
B-galactosidase
GM1 gangliosides
Which sphingolipidoses cause cherry red spots?
Niemann Pick
Tay Sachs
GM1 Gangliosidosis
Gaucher
Which sphingolipidoses affect Ashkenazi Jews?
Niemann Pick
Tay Sachs
What are key findings in Niemann Pick?
cherry red spot, vertical gaze palsy, MR, hepatosplenomegaly
What are Niemann Pick cells?
foamy cells; large vacuolated histiocytes and lymphocytes
What is the most frequent sphingolipidosis?
Gaucher
What are Gaucher cells?
wrinkled tissue paper appearing cells
What are key findings in Gaucher disease?
hypersplenism with anemia and thrombocytopenia
What are key findings in Fabry disease?
painful dysesthesias, vascular disease (Htn, renal, death by MI or stroke in adulthood)
What are key findings in Tay Sachs disease?
MACROcephaly, cherry red spot (NO organomegaly)
What are clinical findings in Sandhoff disease?
similar to tay sachs but has visceral storage