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Familial Systemic Carnitine Deficiency

Robert P. Cruse, DO; Salvatore Di Mauro, MD; Javad Towfighi, MD; Carlo Trevisan, MD

Arch Neurol. 1984;41(3):301-305.


Abstract

• Two sisters with systemic carnitine deficiency showed the heterogenicity of this condition and a lack of correlation between measurable carnitine levels and clinical manifestations. One child experienced recurrent metabolic encephalopathy, which was diagnosed as Reye's syndrome. The older child, despite lower carnitine concentrations, was asymptomatic. Lipid inclusion myopathy was shown in both children. Serum, muscle, and liver carnitine levels were reduced. The parents had normal serum carnitine concentrations. Both children had significantly abnormal renal handling of carnitine, and their mother, a mild alteration. This family provided evidence for genetic transmission and presumed autosomal recessive inheritance in this disease. Both children were treated with carnitine without clear benefit; no side effects were noted. Previously reported cases of systemic carnitine deficiency were reviewed.



Author Affiliations

From the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Dr Cruse), Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York (Drs Di Mauro and Trevisan), and Department of Pathology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey (Dr Towfighi).


Footnotes

Accepted for publication June 7, 1983.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 (Dr Cruse).



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